Metaverse Language

Radical Materiality

kliger — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:06:52 +0000

“Radical materiality” is a term I invented in an attempt to explain why, as an architect, I’m interested to make art installations:
Working also as an artist, fabricating on-site installations in public, private and art spaces, is a means to understanding just what it means to “invent space.” Or, installation as a medium, is used as a platform of experimentation of specific Ideas concerning material and space. The result of this experimentation is either applied to a project in development or exploited as a means to clarify and continue the incipient Idea. Their form tends away from the global definition of a project, and tends towards the development of spatial fragments, constructing a context for material radicalization. While it is possible to view the result of these installations from an aesthetic perspective, it is not a necessary condition for their success. Rather, the ability of these spaces to engender, through the creation of an immersive space, the emergence of atmosphere from this installation, that surpasses its material and physical limitations; space projects.
The relationship between an architectural idea and its realization, while working as an architect, is an indirect one. An architect does not construct the spaces he or she invents, but only represents them. Representation for an architect is a double edged sword, serving simultaneously to both develop the project, and to communicate it. Of the two representations, one serves to represent the material manifestation of a space, its qualities; the other represents it as a measurable, geometrically determined, finished product.
Creating installations, on the other hand, the two representations, conceptual and real, are very closely related; in fact, they are reversible. The tool-set necessary to represent an installation is the same one required for its realization. Those tools, the software and the hardware, must be developed for and around its specific conceptual, logical exigences, as well as its material form.

Sensation

kliger — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:58:33 +0000

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form – or else it is not art.” –Jacques Barzun.

Resistance is the essence of materiality, sensation is the means through which we comprehend its properties. A synthetic world’s physical laws, apprehended through direct sensational contact with material objects, are the rules that determine the behavior of objects, avatars and their interaction, and exist to imbue them with coherence. We are cut-off and numb to the expression of material sensation that emanates from synthetic environments.

Deleuze differentiates between two kinds of sensations: sensations that force us to think and sensations that constitute the basis for the aesthetics, sensations as objects of recognition. According to Smith, one of Deleuze’s philosophic aims is to show that the singularity and individuality of the diverse can only be comprehended from the viewpoint of difference itself. The Idea of sensation is constituted by two interrelated principles of difference: the differential relations between genetic elements, and the differences in intensity that actualise these relations. They do not indicate some sort of metaphysical reality beyond the senses; as Ideas, they are posited in order to account for sensibility, though they are not given in experience as such. Whereas in Kant, Ideas are unifying, totalising and transcendent, in Deleuze, they are differential, genetic, and immanent.

Praxis

kliger — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:04:43 +0000

prax·is (prăk’sĭs) pronunciationn., pl. prax·es (prăk’sēz’).
1. Practical application or exercise of a branch of learning. 2. Habitual or established practice; custom.
The noun praxis means translating an idea into action Synonym: practice
Praxis is a Latinate English noun, referring to the process of putting theoretical knowledge into practice.
Praxis is a term in Eastern Orthodox theology, referring to the practice of faith, especially worship.

Machine

kliger — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:02:58 +0000

A machine is directional, energetic device that functions by its own force and flow, which is reversible.

Dataflow

kliger — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:56:38 +0000

Dataflow, term used in computing… closely related to message passing… software architecture based on the idea that changing the value of a variable should automatically force recalculation of the values of other variables. Dataflow programming languages embody these principles, with Spreadsheets perhaps the most widespread embodiment of dataflow (though) not restricted to recalculating numeric values, as done in spreadsheets. For example, dataflow can be used to redraw a picture in response to mouse movements, or to make robot turn in response to a change in light level. The term dataflow may also be used to refer to the flow of data within a system, and is the name normally given to the arrows in a data flow diagram that represent the flow of data between external entities, processes, and data stores.”

geotagging

kliger — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:50:10 +0000

Geotagging is the process of adding geographical data to online content created either by individuals or big media. Usually it involves integrating a Google or Yahoo map into a site and allowing users to pinpoint where they reside. Sometimes it goes a step further by letting individuals “tag” the content with the locations where their articles, photos, videos or blogs were created. [Micro Persuasion]

Info cloud

kliger — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:28:53 +0000

The digital backup of data; mass of data concerning a specific topic; the process or chain of an info-cloud concerns the existence of the cloud, and the objects that are projected or created from it. Objects that are congelations of an info-cloud and not just generating info.

New URL for Metaverse Territories dot com

kliger — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:52:10 +0000

New site address–> METAVERSETERRITORIES.COM

puppeteering

kliger — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:19:29 +0000

A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object—a puppet—to create the illusion of life. A puppeteer can operate a puppet either by the use of strings, rods, wires or simply their own hands. Some puppet styles require puppeteers to work in teams to create a single character. [Wikipedia]

gesture

kliger — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:29:08 +0000

“Gestures, in part, are a sign of intention and attention or inattention, include online actions like tagging, commenting, subscribing, unsubscribing, clicking, not clicking, rating, voting, searching, linking, etc…

…gestures of attention (tagging, commenting, ranking, linking, reviewing, clicking, searching…) are contributing to the economic value of the social media they use.” [Dan Farber, ZDNet]