(part of f15 expanded from an overview)

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• 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 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

• 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

• '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

• 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

• 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

• 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