[-empyre-] Writing and Pattern Flows

[Bill Seaman <bseaman@risd.edu>]

Concerning   [-empyre-] Writing and Pattern Flows

Klima:
"The potential exists to apply this notion of 
flow field to a dynamic narrative trajectory, 
where a history has an initial vector, is run 
through a field of narrative possibilities, and 
the field of forces result in an output vector. 
Specific possibilities/states can be given 
proportional weights that sum to produce the 
output vector. These weights are fungable as time 
and other forces modify the landscape (including 
the initial trajectory itself - everything has a 
wake). I'm currently actively exploring this 
potential for dynamic narrative generation."

----------

I spent two weeks in deep discussion with Otto 
Rössler. 45 hours of interview/discussion was 
recorded. Among other ponderings, Seaman and 
Rössler are collaborating on the 
creation/generation of a sentient machine. Our 
title for the initial concept is the Benevolence 
Engine. Needless to say, Rössler was writing 
about related force fields in 74 in his equation 
for a brain[1]. The most important question here 
(for this discussion) is how our notion of 
writing is expanding. We inscribed (clay tablets 
etc.), we later used pens and pencils and 
beautiful brushes (including pictographic 
language systems), we used typewriters 
(skewmorphs as Kate Hales describes),we 
generate/listen to music, watch TV and movies 
[and in particular now play games]? and now we 
are on the cusp of a number of open areas of 
research.

1) Will someone develop an interface that enables 
us to write with media-elements with the ease of 
use a typewriter? (My World Generator [programmer 
Gideon May] is a first attempt)[2]
2) Will real time natural language processing and 
multi-modal search algorithms aid in this new 
form of writing?
3) Will real time employment of code 
constructions find related information as we 
speak and present it to us as an alternate mode 
of association?
4) Will code-based authorship alter all 
authorship as we know it (see Jon's game 
perspective)(remembering Wittgenstein's language 
games)and open out writing to entirely new modes 
of narrative and non-narrative construction.
5) Will generative tool kits based on object 
based programming alter language use as we know 
it?
6) And will we create sentient entities that can 
write for themselves (generate pattern flows with 
a particular depth of contextual understanding)? 
(a subsection of Seaman's and Rössler's goals)?

We are on the cusp of developing new 
communication systems that will enable us to 
write in very new ways?

Seaman Oct. 6 2005

[1] Rössler, Otto, Adequate Locomotion Strategies 
For An Abstract Organism in An Absrtract 
Environment - A relational Approach to Brain 
function, as found in Lecture Notes in 
Biomathematics,  Managing Editor S. Levin, #4, 
Physics and Mathematics of the Nervous System 
edited by M. Conrad, W. Güttinger, and M. Dal 
Cin., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, new 
York, 1973. p. 342

[2]See Billseaman.com for dissertation and other texts

--
Professor Bill Seaman, Ph.D.
Department  Head
Digital+ Media Department (Graduate Division)
Rhode Island School of Design
Two College St.
Providence, R.I. 02903-4956
401 277 4956
fax 401 277 4966
bseaman@risd.edu

http://billseaman.com
http://www.art.235media.de/index.php?show=2
http://digitalmedia.risd.edu