Re: [-empyre-] living traces of past practices

[jonCates <joncates@criticalartware.net>]

 Barbara Lattanzi wrote:
>  >Hello all.

hello Barbara + all

 Barbara Lattanzi wrote:
>  >I was wondering if the criticalartware team could address the idea 
> of experimental archives.

we have a somewhat complicated relationship to archiving, but i 
certainly think of criticalartware @ least partially as an 
experimental archive.

 Barbara Lattanzi wrote:
>  >While visiting the fluid landscape of Liken, some associations 
> came to mind that suggested the >fantastical rather than the 
> encyclopedic (or the encyclopedic as fantastical).

yes, absolutely. the 'encyclopedic as fantastical' is a wonderful 
characterization of liken.

 Barbara Lattanzi wrote:
>  >For example, Gulliver's giant body and the Lilliputan architecture 
> necessary to contain him

that is a wonderful metaphor + one that i hope can be developed into 
an alternative interface for liken.

btw, this nfo on creating interfaces for liken comes from our most 
recent release:

"by using a publicly-accessible XML file to describe these 
[pathways/relationships] of liken, criticalartware 
[invites/encourages] users to develop [alternate/critical/"new"] ways 
of [imagining/visualizing/navigating] liken's 
[pathways/relationships]. liken could easily be traversed as a 3D 
video game, a mindmap, a soundEngine, or a Flash animation. in this 
way, liken is the beta version of a criticalartware operating system, 
for which anyone can develop compatible 
[applications/plug-ins/skins/filters]."

From: criticalartware said hello <hello@criticalartware.net>
Subject: criticalartware_Version.3.1415926535
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:05:05 -0500

the uri of that file is:
http://www.criticalartware.net/lib/liken/nodes.xml

Barbara Lattanzi wrote:
>  >Could the Liken project be read in terms of its fabulous 
> (fable-like) aspiration?

most certainly. we are also very [informed/inspired] by Ted Nelson's 
Xanadu project:

http://xanadu.com/

+ invocations of interconnected fables of 
[mysterious/hidden/enchanted ] [worlds/spaces].
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