[-empyre-] sidebar - continued discussion between John Klimaand Bill Seaman - part 2

[Bill Seaman <bseaman@risd.edu>]

Chris Poole said:

I keep thinking about how objects, or collections of objects in 
programming could represent 'States of Consciousness' that is itself 
a meta-object. Could one write conduits inbetween the gaps of objects 
that are 'universal', that distribute something iconic and meaningful 
to all objects in that family? Perhaps, as a way of creating 
patterns, reinforcing patterns, death of neglected patterns, that 
informs how the objects relate to each other.

Even if it were merely a 'throttle' for possible relations between 
objects. This object talks apples, this one pears, but can interact 
through a third object, etc.

Seaman:
first steps toward a "throttle" system...
I am very much interested in the potentials of object-based 
recombinant systems that might be written to enable very high level 
system authorship --- and in turn enable one to "get at" particular 
states of consciousness.

In an  work in progress entitled The Poly-sensing Environment - 
Seaman, Verbauwhede (EE at UCLA), Mark Hansen (Statistical CS UCLA) 
have been working on such a system.

The system includes a set of bundled sensors that "talk to" a matrix 
that enables behavior picked up by the sensors to trigger particular 
media-oriented responses.

Let me try to say this in a different language - sensors in a space 
send signals to a system that
enables an author to define a particular media relation (or secondary 
robotic behavior] to that behavior.
Chunks of code enable media-element configurations with particular 
behaviors to be interaced with or conjoined. The triggered media 
element configurations elicits a response from the interactant. Your 
idea of conduits [I have used the term Conjunction Codes in terms of 
a another of my works called The Hybrid Invention Generator] is an 
excellent concept.

I also called this a "grammar of attention" as the subtitle of the 
Poly-sensing environment.

Part of the system is called the Emergent Intention Matrix ---
see 
http://homestudio.thing.net/database/video/Poly-Sensing_Environment/pse_Experimental.dcr

This is just a sketch of the system (thanks Fabian Winkler)

This matrix enables one to author a series of relationships between 
behaviors in physical space and related media objects (or media 
behaviors / affector relations [robotics] in virtual/physical space.

I am hopeful that this will become a kind of universal physical 
interface generator...
at the moment we are stalled (when you try to make a "universal 
system" it is hard to argue its singular potential especially to the 
NSF. The Langlois Foundation did fund one year of research and we are 
thankful to them.
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=49

Imagine that you could have a series of objects in a room (as one 
example). When the objects were explored a text could appear on a 
screen or be spoken in relation to the object (or a particular 
behavior) --- or video clips could play or an alife set of characters 
might appear etc. etc.
b
--
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Rhode Island School of Design
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