Showing posts with label A-life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A-life. Show all posts

2010-01-24

IFs: excercising creative approaches and media

What if machines could read and reastour emotional states?

What if machines had its' own emotions to communicate with humans?

What if machines objectified humans in the same way we personify machines?

What if machines reacted to us personifying them?

What if we could translate non-material and obscure digital content
(e.g. Cellular Automata) using physical and familiarly analog objects?

What if CA rules were defined by specific physical world properties?

What if blogosphere or social networks could be translated into CA?

What if machines were not reliable, could be mistaken or even cheat us?

What if machine and human became integrated on an organic level in which
machine's blueprint became part of human's DNA and development of both
was interdependent?

2010-01-20

first things first

Due to some transcendental reasons the opening of this blog was chaotic and regardless of my multiple interests to which I dedicate this space.
So first things first.

My current work is currently based around two major areas of interest:
• coding language;
• artificial life.

Coding language—this is a continuation of my 1st term answer to the 'tone and noise' brief. The purpose of this brief was: 'to explore how we can push and experience one quality of language through another and thereby extend what communications can be and what it can do'. Since November, when I produced my answer and crits took place, some radical improvements have been made which affected the very core of the project.
I will document its development by tagging it with: noisecode.

Artificial life—is a broad discipline where computer science, design and natural sciences overlap. This seems to be my favourite cocktail for which I have been searching for quite a while and just discovered it on the MACD course at CSM. This blog is mainly devoted to documenting my activity in the field of A-life which is going to define the context of my final project at CSM as well.
All posts relevant to this area will be tagged with: A-life.

I believe these two areas of my interest share at least two common features.
One is strongly rooted in my very personal approach to design:
developing a working system,
the second one has been always attracting me to design:
design as a process of translation.
With the help of this blog I want to trace the development of my two initial ideas and dream of a happy-end when both will ultimately fuse at one point.
If this happens, I will apply for a phd at MIT.