Some basic elements of object-oriented thought.
The interactions between the elements creates the most everything.
Probably.
the elements of object-oriented thought
Portraits: live remixes of poetic (and other) performances; arrangements of language fragments for the discovery of new truths.
These two portraits are refined versions of sketches of one of Jamie Gaughran-Perez’s readings. Performed during “Via” at a Pyramid Atlantic reading, 2006.
These are the working notes for an interactive performance ritual to summon the spirit of Heraclitus, conducted in June of 2007. The ritual was developed by M. Magnus and myself, based on his text “On Heraclitean Pride.”
The performance followed an actual ritual format, beginning with a circle creation and summoning, followed by the requisite banishings (throwing salt around the room), divine laughter (led by M’s daughter, Hero), invocation (singing a recombinant hymn together), and consecration. While we’re not sure if the summoning was a complete success, we believe that Heraclitus, the source of so much awareness of flux, chaos, and change, would have been proud.
The ritual was conducted as part of the excellent i.e. reading series at Dionysus restaurant, to an amused (bemused?) mix of folks coming to the reading and folks who just happened to be sitting down to dinner.
More M. Magnus (or, MMM)
Verb Sap, published by Narrow House
Video of performance with the Splash Ensemble
This is the “Score for Environmental Interactions”; an interactive performance piece I did for the Yockadot! Poetics Theatre Festival in Alexandria, VA
The performance was a “guided tour” of the USPTO building where the last day of the festival was being held.
The participants were given the score and a sheet torn at random from a dictionary. We then toured the building, describing it using the language on our pages, improvising a new reality out of the mix of the dictionary and our own creative impulses.
View the back side of the Score, containing great pseudo-mathematic equations like “Always (divided by) Whatever”, after the jump Read More
I’m meeting with Flash/evil genius Chris Davis tomorrow to talk about some possible object-oriented thought applications. I got all excited and started some mad sketching/thinking:
General View:
Thought-object detail – peoples.
Thought-object detail – person flying some kind of kite
Thoughts?
Going through my backlog of work, I found this list of “fields and terms” of interest to the Group for Radical Recombinance (the GRR), a revolutionary avant garde group that met formally only once, but was incredibly prolific for a roughly two-year span, until it was succeeded by the Score for Local Knowledge (a slightly more library/music-centric group).
Make sure to check out the Flickr page, lots of good annotations.
Oh, and the list contains one of my favorite lines: “all effects are special.”
Happy listing.
Some idle diagramming today, while thinking about how thoughts and proto-thoughts can split or twin, creating rich nets and interpenetrable feedback loops. This probably has something to do with emergence:
There are a lot of annotations on the image at Flickr, in case you’re curious about feedback loops in the mind, semantic equations, or the last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I watched. (Look for one of Willow’s first magic sigils!)
“A Collection of Commands” is a little post-it thought I had earlier in the day, and this page seemed a nice play to put it…. How is thought like/unlike a collection of commands?
Just started trying out Evernote, a note-taking/keeping app. Not really sure if I need another one of those, but it works nicely on my iPhone, so we’ll see.
At any rate, my first “note” was of a little diagram post-it I had on my desk at work:
My handwriting (as normal) is atrocious, but lends itself to some swell misreading-based statements:
Draft sketch of the process by which thought elements interact in thought spaces, which are in turn converted into thought objects by the interface and potential interfaces that surround them.
Intro slide to Lecture 2 – What We Think When We Think About Thought
As far as I can tell, here’s what’s happening:
Note: this is probably very similar to the process of making a thought “happen” in your own mind.
More slides from Lecture 2
Video of Lecture 2
