===Reality Generation - Notes===

(part of [[:f15/start]] expanded from an [[overview]])

**images & mood***

  * https://www.pinterest.com/deziluzija/reality-generation/

**Pliant matter**
  * **Thick**: spaces, descriptions, calligraphy, liminal media on the periphery of perception
  * **Pliability**, elasticity, responsiveness, density, fluidity
  * **From objects to fields**: working with nuances and atmospheres, refractions, shadows; SPIMES (open objects, objects with history, objects as protagonists)
  * **Dynamic luminescence**, continuous sculpting, algorithmic design (of matter and media), translucency
  * **Membranes**: (wearable architecture, topology, M-theory, biomimicry, 5 human skins)

Related: TML, Sphaerae (and cocky’s flying dresses), Loop.ph \\
People to involve: Cocky & Theun, Rachel & Hiaz, Xinwei, Joel


**Experience**
  * Embodiment (aesthetic span between logic and sensuality)
  * Synaesthesia
  * Flow of experience
  * Transitions and transformations
  * Movement of verbs as opposed to symbolism of the nouns
  * Calvino’s 6 memos
  * Deceleration, slowness, immersion

Related: FoAM’s approach to experience design \\
People to involve: Time’s Up, loop.ph, 


**Flux, Consciousness, Reality**
  * Alternate states of consciousness and perceptions of reality
  * Ideological + sensory -> ritual (shared social experience)
  * Journey towards rapture -> ecstatic, mystical, peak experiences
  * Intersecting reality tunnels (RAW)
  * The essence of everything is relation
  * Irreal, Pataphysical
  * Cosmicomics

Related: Borrowed Scenery, Seasonal rituals… \\
People to involve: Xinwei, Satinder


**Sociality**
  * Feasts, festivals, celebrations, dinner parties, rituals
  * Art=life: giving of gifts, artworlds, lived experience
  * Hosting: social spaces, facilitation, fortune-telling, hostess 
  * Food: thematic feasts, social glue, conflict resolution, audience magnet
  * Hybrid reality: memories, rituals, commons

Related: Hosting Craft (and overall FoAM’s hosting culture, Open Sauces, F0amfr0th) \\
People to involve: Sia


**Playful experience**
  * From representation to performance: performing socially, emergence and disappearance
  * Audiences become players, agents and inhabitants’ co-creation
  * Play: polyphony, dialogue, improv, irreverence, plurality of voices, confusion and requiescence

Related: PARN, GroWorld games, P~lot \\
People to involve: Time’s Up, Alex Davies


**Systems**
  * Beyond functional technology (towards aesthetic and social technology)
  * Human scale systems
  * Media tangible and senses distributed
  * Hybrid reality: mixed reality between physical and digital
  * Conversational interaction
  * Human agency in a tech driven world
  * Systems as translators
  * Systems interaction as immune responses

Related: visual and tangible programming, fluxus… \\
People to involve: Yon, Joel


**Environment**
  * Human agency in the environment
  * Effects of human actions on the environment to be experienced on a human scale
  * Think globally act locally
  * Ecological thinking
  * Biomimicry (e.g. recycling motion into media)

Related: Luminous green, GroWorld \\
People to involve: Angelo (biomodd), Michka re: biomimicry?

**Text**
  * see [[reality_generation_extracts]] and [[overview]] for now