Web 2.0 _ relations of power

Following the logic of the previous post... here Juan Martin Prada exemplifies the role o WEB 2.0 in the understanding of power... the notion of relationality is coming to to forefront.

"in this second stage of the Web, we should speak not of power but of the relations of power, given that dominion is not a unilateral relation here, but rather it operates through power plays that are mobile, unstable, based on diffuse circulation strategies and the transmission of individual initiatives and freedom.

We could even say that in the context of the new culture of digital participation, politics can only be conceived properly as the organization of social interactions. Ideally, the most appropriate political model would be that inherent to the connected multitude itself, self-organizing its interactions in the full exercise of its decision and participation possibilities. The autonomy of politics, as a notion that implies separation or representativity, would thus no longer have any meaning. This political and social model would begin to take form today in those forms of organization distributed in networks, in the multiplicity of all the connected singularities, characterized by that Spinozan thought, where beings are constituted through desire, through the pleasure of being alive."

Juan Martin Prada - “Web 2.0″ as a new context for artistic practices

http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=307

Sn / Ns

social networking / network society
first was "I am who I am because of everyone"
then "Life's for sharing" 
society is an autopoietic system...
but how can we overcome this often too conservative circularity that boosts capitalism?
'assemblage theory' and 'machinic heterogenesis' provide few useful insights.
the French guys are out of fashion but that is what they were looking for...
thinking as experimenting promotes ethics of emergence and aesthetics of pragmatics.

interscalar // systemic operations

the workshop introduced a general thinking platform with the key notion of interscalar to imply intense systemic operations in different levels. the brief developed along those lines in a more focused area of action by identifying the interscalarity in the theme of border. It was a theme that emerged though intensive communications with the doctors and specialist from the psychiatric field. The theme of border was there to negotiate with issues of security and socialization that reactivates the will and desire for action. So the pressing question was how to transform a dividing mechanism to a communication interface. How to make a secure border without a fence? The request of the brief was to provoke a thinking mode that is able to open up the notion of a border form something that divides fixed static entities to a device that negotiates the intricacies of each system. To think through systems and multiplicities was something that served the purpose of the operations to redefine the theme of border. A multiplicity is not a mere aggregation of different parts but is a systemic in-formation of a device that belongs to many without having the need of reductive and static unification. Across to those lines the brief encouraged students to form three groups in order to investigate the theme of border in different scales with different implied scenarios.

parametrics in 3ds max

sun sensitive facade
this is the last experiment with 3ds max for now
go back to real programming and maybe in the near future
to hack it again with C++ or Python

re-working SOfM

this is an early study on SOfM. it uses Splines to provide the Features that will work as inputs for the map to adapt.

expression and wiring parameters 3Ds max

a line of code in 3Ds max and exaustive Vray:
needs 3min to wire the expression to parameters
and 33min to render it

processing // exp