The workshop will take place on: 20 April 2006
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A Crystalpunk Workshop for the Chain-Reaction Glitterati

By socialfiction____________________________________________________
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http://www.socialfiction.org/n.php?nski=180_________________________
WildStyle BacterioPoetics: http://socialfiction.org_________________
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Crystalpunk is a rally cry for people to come together and start 
making all sorts of weird things, things slightly of kilter that 
need a crystalpunk to have its delights appreciated, things that 
are radical but hurt nobody. 

Other people, ÒprofessionalsÓ, are making things too. In art, in 
architecture, in computer science, in biology, crystalpunks want 
to share in their excitement, often feeling it more than they do,
but understanding it through reverie not formalism. 

At socialfiction.org we have been thinking about gargoyle computation
[rococo automated search & gargoylisation not optimisation], software
as a crystal ball [cellular automata as discrete little worlds that 
hide complex operations creating a universe to be discovered by its
users], pattern formation [put your fingers on your closed eyelids &
press gently], non conventional computing [molecule based & sea based],
unintentional intelligence [the wildtype adaptivism of BacterioPoetics]. 
Somewhere in the middle we started writing a chain-reaction automaton:
on the GUI a Grid, inside it rectangles are activated to rotate one
step, activating others to rotate one step of 4 on close contact. 
The crystalpunk can interact with it: creating patterns, signalling
it and monitoring its output. But the rules that guide its movement 
are mind boggling gargoyly. Can it Compute? Can it loop forever? 
 hese and many other questions are to be explored during this workshop.

The script we have made is a sloppy bit of Python code and in this workshop 
we invite you to make things [fractalline patterns, logic gates, literature,
self-destructing embroidery forms] on top of it. 

Please bring your computer if you have one. 

The old version of the script can be downloaded here:
[whilst we work on an update]: http://socialfiction.org/gargoyle.html

Download Python: http://www.python.org 

Tags: EVENT crystalpunk ChainReaction python   -- posted: 12.Mar.2006
 
Location: Overtoom 301, Amsterdam _________________________________
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The worshop is on April 20, 2006 ___________________________________
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