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Ignite DC Talk – Becoming a DJ of Thought

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:28:34 +0000

Video from my talk at Ignite DC #2, titled “Becoming a DJ of Thought.” More description below the video.

Description:
Remixing is not just an art form: it is a fundamental method for understanding and interacting with what we know. We’ve realized the potential of remixing in music, literature, and art—we must now remix the entire spectrum of human thought. If we can remix songs, why not the encyclopedia? If we can mash-up Jay-Z and the Beatles, why not Einstein and Darwin, the Bible and Pythagoras, Isaac Newton and Lewis Carroll? Remixing “the stuff of thought” will yield not only compelling art, but, with the right understanding and appreciation, real insight and scientific advancement. The innovators of the future will be “DJs of Thought,” sampling, mixing, and spinning all existing ideas and thought-objects into ever-new structures. They will remix what we know into what we could know. They will show the Academy how to dance.

Improvised Recombinance / Functional Improvised Recombinance

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:14:35 +0000

Improvised Recombinance

Functional Improvised Recombinance in which a recombinance, or remix, is channeled into a structure for further use

An interactive performance lecture in which I taught a group of George Mason University students how to re-mix thought-objects to generate answers to the question “What is Thought?”
This is a condensed “promo” version of the 20-minute lecture.

Lecture 2 – Intro Slide

adam — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:34:01 +0000

Intro slide to Lecture 2 – What We Think When We Think About Thought

As far as I can tell, here’s what’s happening:

A primary user (left) access a thought-object (center) that is connected to a portable medium (top).
Collective knowledge of the thought-object, combined with perceptions of the primary user’s use of it, flows back and forth between observers (bottom) and the thought-object. This changes it.
The thought-object, combining the inputs and manipulations of the primary user, portable medium, and observers, projects an image onto a screen (right) …

The primary user and observers now have access to a representation of the thought-object.
They can now discuss it as a tangible entity, and change its properties by manipulating the representation or by adjusting variables in the thought-object itself.

Note: this is probably very similar to the process of making a thought “happen” in your own mind.