mid term movie...

Here are some of the comments and where I need to take it from here. Ed Keller was there. He is so tremendous! Jean Michel and MarkDavid and 2 friends of his from UCSB were also at the review.
1. ed-what does it mean to be alive? organic/inorganic...
is the brick alive, what does it mean? what does it mean about existing in an inhaborg?
Look back to D&G and the machine of the non-organic life- what are the trends and issues of self regulation- intelligence and force0 the quantity thru flow, what is the META META for life? to exist?
2. what are the boundaries of inhabitation.. what are the rulesets.. what is the model...there is a spray can but it is just the place holder for the device to communicate- control the tools for communication
3. (this is from jmc) he said that i "undermined my credibility with the use of youtube", i need more presices in visual material and though i might be exploring the canvas right now its time for a verticle explorations. what is the new domain? what are the new parameters?
4. mdh- what is the role of the human? (good question right? gees i should have actually put that more in the forefront.. i mean who are we growing this for? oh nina ) so is it man vrs. nature but i m saying ultimately that MAN IS NATURE (i know hard to believe) and that the boundaries can be broken down from the inhabitation and the subject. You can live in something more similar to yourself.
5. also.. nano/quantum levels-bacteria things that break down he boundaries and the illusions of the boundries of existing and proposed.
6. ed again- apple tree anecdote- apple tree and the parasitic vine became one. the sapping- what are the local and global implications and how it actually harnesses the energy(s) around it.. why the vine not the strangle
7. macroscopic and fields .. look at the macro break down in the other fields that operate through the matter/media
8. I NEED A MODEL OF THIS THING>>>>>>>>> MOST IMPORTANTE!.....what is the basic model.. what does it mean to be this THING? where is the feed back loop from the rules...
9. THE FLY!!!
Goldblum takes over the habits of the fly--predistinguish.. there are a catalogue of attributes what is the TAXONOMY of this SPECIES-- where is the TRANS action the mutual exchange between the people and the inhaborg?
10. (here's a kicker) RE DEFINE EVOLUTION... that one is one of my favorites.
what does it mean for evolution to take place? communication to evolve? what is the rule set of communication .. think about Sanford Kwinter's class, how does it integrate to culture and complex life? how does it get there? memes? Temes? memorization systems and habit...
11. micheal serres txt.. ill get back to that... model for how things work in this world irreversible..
12. thermodynamics model and info theory.. how to produce/value its intelligence?
13. noise reaction-- question of level 4 .. how do you know if it is going the right way?
14. jmc-make it more systematic.. work with systems towards the model
15. mdh-making and doing only way to progress the project.. and i completely agree.. i need to start to make some of the experiments.. ben bratton said that to me in the first convo i had with him on this... yep.. its all a big i know you told me so.. i just have to get it done.
my experiments for the model.. what ever happened to me and the scientific method?
16. write out a thesis statement.. (we should have done this in the beginning.. but you know how things are around here)
17. reflect on the media, the biology is the media...medium of communication. (back to the great dance.. iLove that movie)
18. limits of organic life- nasa paper, how would we be come if we didnt know how we got here?
non living vrs. .living
how inhaborg deals with contact flow and information.. what is the pattern recognition. transmition/transactive
19. what are the protocalls/ mattenence of pattern.. but also ARAKAWA AND GINS.. breaking habit.

mani-pul-ation....

This is the proposal for an installation I am making for the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival . This is exploring some of the points in Level 1 of the steps to Inhaborg. This is also for a class I am taking with MarkDavid Hosale. So by the end of it (or at least August 8th) I will know how to get my little arduino board up and running.

GOZILLA(greglynn) VRS. KING KONG(ericownmoss)

One thing I have to say is that Eric Own Moss is hilarious. Monday night at th Sciarc Gallery, there was a conversation between him and Greg Lynn about the current installation of the Blob Wall. The goal of the blob wall was to come up with a mortar-less brick. Amoung other things in the current public spectrum of architecture, this piece is relative to pop culture through its playful notions but what I would like to say is its potential for mass marketing and sub narration. What if each one of these units were made with googley eyes or had smiley faces much like everything in a Japanese Grocery store. What if it was a collaboration between Takashi Murakami and Greg Lynn Form? The blob wall brick (I wish we had a name for it) isnt far off from Murakami's "Mr. DOB."

Let's return to this intention of "brick". What is a brick? A brick is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction, laid using mortar, according to wikipedia. A "brick" from popular culture could be a character in role-playing and other games whose primary role is to sustain damage and act as a shield for weaker allies or just a game not far off from Tetris.

We are interpreting this "brick" as a structural element, though the installation did have a small collapse. Though "mortar-less" this brick did not snap into the next one or relate, it was restricted to a predestined form instituted by the modeling program. Now I do not want to assume here but if this path was taken then great.

What if the brick was used as the bases of a script, the brick was the unit that had its own reactions/wants/needs/desires programed in to its possible behaviors? Even Jonathan Borofsky's Human Structures start to address these points in there own evolution and realization. If the blob wall unit was allowed to expose itself and may be even dissolve into its self. What if he employed the Xfrog Program to let the evolution?

What my suggestion was that the actual structure served as the mortar, the membrane could have a reaction to itself and maybe grow on to its self. Or if an introduction of sunlight via sunlamps or etc and then embedded in the surface is a mold or some bacteria/fungus that spreads and grows exponentially with the sun. Just a suggestion.

inhabitable organism

Programming scenarios: R&Sie(n)...
In Issue 8 of Praxis, the work of Francois Roche and Stephanie Lavaux is unraveled via their redefining architectural programming at the micro and macro scales thus to insturmentalizing the material processing of place. Their understanding of program synthesizes ecology, biology, and built form as both critique and catalyst. They use an evolving definition for program in architecture.
What is programming:
Architecture- a design brief of space requirements or activities
computer science- a sequence of coded instructions input into a mechanism that enable it to perform in a specified manner

biology- a sequence of coded instructions (as genes or behavioral responses) embedded with in the organism itself- integral to the building's life processes in relation to its biotope

By substituting the words biotope and scenario for site and design, R&Sie(n)... mess with the materiologies of the hyper-local. They code the intelligent material, the "genius materiae", the material of place, they spark a process to produces unanticipated and constantly evolving effects.

"Their uncompromising views and creations are highly experimental. Such elements as metamorphosis, fluid ecology, clones, biorobotics and advanced medicine play an important part. Their 'architecture non standard' is not static, but lively and amorphous. Their visionary exhibition 'I've heard about (a flat, fat, growing urban experiment)' shows an urban planning Utopia comprising a self-engendered,
independently growing biostructure." _

The article pin points out their project : Dusty Relief, a museum of contemporary art in Bangkok. The proposal exploits its context, using the highly toxic urban atmosphere. The dust, soot, and smog are now an integral part of the Bangkok's biotope and as an indigenous material that's modified the city's climate. The proposal juxtaposes the geopolitical architectural ambitions of a museum with the highly local site chemical specificity of its toxic micro-ecology. It produces a duality of co-existence with the pristine white-walled galleries to the polluted atmosphere. (WASTE=FOOD according to McDonough, yet this takes it to a new level. Less chic band aide, more reaction.) This building works because it announces to society, "yes, we human beings did fuck up the environment, now we need to use what we have," instead of just using hay for insulation and slapping on solar panels on the west side in a smog filled city, it is accepting the environment and working from there, re-adapting.

How does this work? The building has an electrostatically charged mesh cladding designed ot attract the fine particles in the air. As time passes, the dust continues to accumulate with carbon monoxide particles precipitating on the amorphous ectrostatic shell, augmenting the evolving particle landscape. Unlike most "architecture", the building attracts versus repel, absorbing and "feeding" off of its environment.
R&Sie(n)... set up the system for change and evolution to occur, not prescribing a fundamental construction. They are playing off of an organic rule set, not fighting nature but incorporating it, exposing it, and enhancing it.

We are going this way.