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Media Files ===Behind the Algorithms - Notes === (part of [[:f15/start]] expanded from an [[overview]]) **images & mood** [[https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=foam:f15=2|foam:f15=2]] === Glitch === * exploring unpredictability of time leaps and system crashes, delays * topology of error * information is fragile <-> noise as a source of new patterns * space between interfaces where digital art can function as a subversion of the polished make-believe future of the information era (//well, shall we say we capitulate on this one - respectfully lay it to rest…//) * code wriggles to the surface of the screen * code stripped of functionality * we serve no content (jodi) * translation path does not exist * glitch = political, anarchic; draws attention to the constructed nature of information * from useless UI shuffling (topographical amnesia) to deep drifting (derive) * is it broken or is it meant to sound like that? * glitch = discrepancy between intention and expectation * exploring spaces of non-lethal glitches - mutations, changes, corruptions * glitch as a catalyst of change and mutation - away from sedentary systems * different sites where glitches occur have dif. levels of fragility (data, protocol, system, intersystem…) * engineering errors: physical, bit level, input data, system, application, interaction… * to avoid collapse: loosen structure, make new connections, focus on emergence * for a sendentary system a glitch produces meaningless noise, in an emergent system the noise can become a new pattern. decay of one system can incite growth of another. * incompatible protocols, data & platforms, flakey networks * digital decay, graceful degradation * rotting of protocols and routines * rheumatic interfaces with noise oozing out of them, demented search engines * virus in the corporate genome (an element of play and awareness of the market whose tools are colonising us) Related: live coding, fluxus === Weaving & coding === * weaving 0s & 1s - patterns * sentences pierced by virtual wafts & woofs * Sadie Plant - touching, distributed sampled fragments of lives and media tear the focus of singular vision apart * worn out space punctured w/holes and openings * efficient algorithms for real time performance Related: weavecoding, mathematickal arts === Connections at a distance === * HCH/HRH * remote sensuality, dispersion & integration of identities * systems based on association & interconnection * computers and mnemonic machines supporting distributed collaboration between humans * nn+mlf * organic membranes shivering in data winds * biogenes & morphomemes * content -> context * author -> context provider * media -> actuators of interconnected events * creation -> facilitation * emergence of tools that enable generative interconnection * distributed people connected through digital tools * UI morphing to different users * facilitating collaboration between networked participants * focus on what computers do well (crunching data) and enable people who are using the computer to do what they do well (whatever that might be) * ecstasy of communication at a distance * tubing between uncooperative sw, hw & people * design tools must be flexible to minimise constraints on the creative process * sculpting, kneading, weaving metaphors for interfaces Related: tangible programming, promiscuous pipelines, lyta === Blur, confusion, memory === * 'what happens to life in our embodied actual when the object of our investigation becomes a virtual replicator?' * Vanishing point becomes an unstable topology * perception of realities increasingly blurry * a forest of live wires * media synaesthesia * media transformed by the environment in which they are experienced * interfaces as multidimensional mnemonic spaces * a glue layer between indeterminate components * digital materials with properties of elasticity, stiffness and fluidity Related: responsive spaces, mixed reality, GRIG === Emergent systems === * process = growth & decay * epidemic interaction, fragmentation, functional paralysis, catastrophe - a need for a designing machines with an immune system to enable adaptation * edge habitats - constant glitches - locally unstable, globally stable oscillations (e.g. tides), continous translations - space filling & clearing processes * robustness comes from withstanding interactions and resisting constraints - non-equilibrium dynamics incorporates glitches and mutates accordingly * distributed control. probabilistic co-evolution of divergent processes * able to heal & repair damage * unblocking information flows * breaking down hierarchical file-systems * away from systems that contain instead of communicate with media * an elastic system, extendable and scalable frameworks, learning, negotiating, remembering and forgetting * machine learning, tools that evolve with time and usage (thalience) * away from optimising, towards diversifying, evolving, becoming * result = negotiation between internal rules of each element and external conditions of the environment * using unreadable data meaningfully * systems of self-organising elements from which shape and structure emerge Related; groWorld, Luminous Green === Autonomous machines === * physical, autonomous machines * embodiment of intelligent systems * technological artefacts with their own agency * perceiving + acting -> reasoning * migration of intelligence through different embodiments (virtual and physical platforms), with continuation of interaction between different bodies and sensors distributed through the environment; differences between robots joining humans in the physical world, and humans playing games in the computational worlds * What should an "agent mind" look like? * more ecologically valid context * absolute & centralised control = impossibility * a framework for developing frameworks Related: Machine Wilderness, Silent Dialogues === Living with machines === * social robots living in the same environments with people * Biological causes of behaviour * Robot should be anything but a human * How can a robotic creature live with humans? Social interest and contact, remembering and forgetting, supporting relationships and understanding social messaging, recognising and enacting expressions and emotions privacy issues * Test: in games, where robot is a character playing a social game with you; learning from animation to design characters * ethical dimension - how will people spend time with robots? tested in interaction design prototypes; challenging people’s assumptions about the world * animist perspective in robotics - ethics essential in robot development * robots share contextuality with humans and other intelligencies - when involved with humans, they are imbued with character and personality Related: Lirec, germination x, al jazari Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. 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