[-empyre-] seeing yourself a prototype - the limits of open source

[Julian Oliver]

..on Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:07:24PM -0500, christopher sullivan wrote:
> definitions, I think we are not all talking about the same thing.
> so here are my worst case and  best case definitions of prototyping.
> Chris
> 
> dictionary, 
> 
> Prototype A prototype is an original type, form, or instance of something
> serving as a typical example, basis, or standard for other things of the same
> category. The word derives from the Greek(prototypon), "primitive form", neutral
> of (prototypos), "original, primitive", from (protos), "first" and (typos),
> "impression".[1]
> 
> my definitions.
> 
> best case scenario: . a prototype in is an object, or behavior, that is an
> experimental attempt to work towards a best case scenario of application,
> validity, or volatility of an idea, or thing. there must be a concrete need,
> for the prototype to be valuable.
> 
> Worst case scenario: a replacement or guinea-pig for a genuine article, so to
> make the person experiencing or using this thing, or thought system. feel that
> they are negotiating a known object or experience: a dopple ganger or facsimile
> of the real. a placebo: a stunt man. 
> 
> what is your definition?
> 

I don't know, perhaps:

	A prototype is any test of expectation.

Cheers,

-- 
Julian Oliver
home: New Zealand
based: Berlin, Germany 
currently: Berlin, Germany
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> 
> 
> Quoting Julian Oliver <julian at julianoliver.com>:
> 
> > ..on Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:10:01PM -0000, Johannes Birringer wrote:
> > > >> Davin wrote:>> At one point in time, discrete objects were things that
> > were considered prototypes that could be thrown into an existing system and
> > tested. Increasingly, it seems like the prototypes are geared to test
> > individual and collective consciousness.  In other words, maybe we are the 
> > prototypes?  Being tested so that we can be effectively processed,
> > shrink-wrapped, labeled, bought and sold>>
> > 
> > Hmm, This statement from Davin confused me also. I thought it was fairly
> > clear
> > that any act of learning - or any 'attempt', which all action is at it's root
> > -
> > simultaneously produces the self as a prototype, even if only for the
> > duration
> > of that act. The very notion of a prototype assumes a platonic and
> > eventuating
> > objecthood, a finished thing. When are people ever so singularly resolved? 
> > 
> > Second order prototyping is the work of other people, especially
> > aquaintances,
> > marketeers and those that resource people.
> > 
> > Beast,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Julian Oliver
> > home: New Zealand
> > based: Berlin, Germany 
> > currently: Berlin, Germany
> > about: http://julianoliver.com
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> 
> 
> Christopher Sullivan
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> School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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