Isomorphism

"There is, however, no analytic resemblance, correspondence or conformity between the two planes. But their independence does not preclude isomorphism..." (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p.108) We need however to be rather careful at this point cause the use of isomorphism in the Deleuzoguattarian sense is referred to the two planes of content and expression in a direct reference to Hjelmslev's linguistic model. It is the decontextualization of the isomorphism that Delanda sets off to contextualise later at the field of theoretical and experimental physics. He will argue "In this old and tired view (realist), the relation between the plane of reality and that of physics would be one of similarity." (Delanda, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, p.170-171)   Therefore, he recalls Deleuze in order to break the resemblance without denying the isomorphism and he adds "...the physics laboratory [or the computer simulation as he is arguing to his latest book] may be viewed as a site where heterogeneous assemblages form, assemblages which are isomorphic with real intensive individuation processes" (Delanda, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, p.170-171)

GoL Turing Machine

Paul Rendell 2000
engineered patterns of John Conway's Game of Life assembled to operate as a Turing Machine able to carry out computations. More on the Machine can be found here

Phylo: harnessing the computing power of mankind

"We call this project Phylo - A Human Computing Framework for Comparative Genomics, but don't let the fancy name scare you; really, it's just an interactive game that lets you contribute to science.

All you need is a keen eye and some spare time." Phylo

Phylo is "a framework for harnessing the computing power of mankind to solve a common problem"

more you can find here and here

Computer Games like Phylo are the Foldit and the Galaxy Zoo, both of them as well are based on a framework for harnessing humans' ability in pattern recognition.

a Trojan horse without any Soldier

"I think the technology serves as a Trojan horse all right, but in the real story of the Trojan horse, it wasn't the horse that was effective, it was the soldiers inside the horse. And the technology is only going to be effective in changing education if you put an army inside it which is determined to make that change once it gets through the barrier.

Unfortunately, the easier way to get the technology to the school, if you're a vendor, for example, is to open it up and say, "Look, there's no army inside here. It's fine. It suits your purpose. It's not going to be subversive, and so it's a Trojan horse without any soldiers, and that's not a very effective way of doing it.""

Seymour Papert

Emergent behavior / Symb(i/o)tika / CECA

MSc Computing and Design in Architecture | UEL | Show 0910

[CECA] Center for Evolutionary Computing in Architecture

color tracking and emergent patterns.

a voronoi formation emerges and is transformed in cellular morphing and emergent tessellations through simple behavioral rules without the use of any geometrical description. The decision to work with the Popular (the last 5 years among the architectural cirlce) Voronoi diagram was to demonstrate that in the MSc Computing and Design the main focus is to 'deep dive' (at the level of local rules) in any system and observe (and many times be surprised by) its behavior. Algorithmic thinking exploits the potentials for a different methodology in architectural design. Our profound engagement with the machine (computer) allows us to code design in order to recode architecture, in a constant haunt of the epistemic autonomy of the model for a truly emergent behavior.

The algorithm is based on Paul Coates' original code developed in NetLogo and uses simple rules in a field of interrelated elements. Visitors of the show are mapped in an abstract domain where their potentials amplified in a novel way and the experimentation or if you like the game starts in a form of a constructive and positive feedback loop... users can alter at the course of their exploration the rules through a simple interface. Creativity is maximized as the emergence of new patterns reveals affordances for novel behaviors.

developed in processing.

libraries used : JMyron (camera tracking), ControlP5 (GUI)

code will be posted soon

algorithmic text as beyond text

"today to write theory means to write code"

Galloway & Thacker, The Exploit

theorization and its mode of experimentation. I will come back on this shortly, it is a field that we would like to exploit by putting forward an interdisciplinary web platform. The goal is not to destroy IT but to push IT into a hypertrophic state, further than IT is meant to go... this is resistance through an active experimentation

CECA | phase one jury

MSc Computing and Design v.0910

CECA [Centre for Evolutionary Computing in Architecture]

University of East London

the creation of alternative algorithms

I came across with this abstract from Alexander R. Galloway's paper entitled “Alternative Algorithms (On Method)”

"It happens from time to time that a certain amount of reflection becomes necessary, not simply concerning the objects of the mind, but as to the actual manner in which intellectual work is done. This typically comes under the heading of methodology, which today has a distinctly liberal profile. With method, it is often more a question of suitability than existential correctness, often more a question of personal style than universal context. Hence methodological discussions these days often devolve into a sort of popularity contest. Who advocates what method and for what purpose? Which general equivalent trumps all others—is it race, or is it class, or is it the logos, or the archive, or the gaze, or desire, play, excess, singularity, resistance, or perhaps life itself—elevating one methodological formation above all others in a triumphant critique (to end all future critique)? In this paper I examine what sorts of methodological approaches make sense today, making the case that the proper methodological position for those working critically within techno-culture is the creation of alternative algorithms."

looking forward for the full text.

the history of hacking documentary

it is that moment that Nietsche's "gay science" produces innovation and redefines the ethical aspect...

steve wozniak

co-founder of apple computer

hacking is about invention

john draper

a.k.a Captain Crunch

hacking is about experimentation

kevin mitnick

wanted by FBI 1992-95

hacking is about subversion

the Programming of Architecture

Paul Coates' new book is finally scheduled to be published at the very early of 2010... you will be suprised that Paul strugles to make programming a method or/and property of architecture almost the last 30 years. The title of the book has been translated to the mainstream title "the Programming of Architecture" which direclty implies to the more computational one which was programming.architecture/architecture.programming... the book covers a history of experimentations from turing machines to alpha syntax and the most contemporary research on Neural Networks.

Before you dive into scripting and code hard geometric functions to produce the popular now voronoi diagram read how you can program simple rules and wait for the complex pattern/behaviour to emerge.

You can pre order the book here

your brain is like a pile of s***!

your brain is like a pile of sand! our brain is posed at the edge of chaos and for that reason it has all this creative power! A great article at the last issue of New Scientist brings our brain through a systematic view at a state of self-organizing criticality "these systems are right on the boundary between stable orderly behaviour and the unpredictable world of chaos." “The quintessential example of self-organised criticality is a growing sand pile. As grains build up the pile grows in a predictable way until, suddenly and without warning, it hits a critical point and collapses. These “sand avalanches” occur spontaneously and are almost impossible to predict, so the system is said to be both critical and self-organising”.

read the full article here