23.3.05
INTERACT - EXTRACT - INTERPOLATE
a (psycho) geo (graphical) al experiment at BANFF Centre Alberta Canada
Algorithmic Statement #1:
If "x = 22"
And "x" = "human"
Then "human = four"
Algorithmic Statement #2:
If "22 = (y + 23)"
And "y" = "left"
Then "four = (left + eight)"
Conclusion:
Human = four = (left + eight)
Result:
Human walks four blocks, turns left and walks eight blocks.
Confused?
Algorithmic Statement #3:
"Human" = "psychogeographer"
Translation:
Psychogeographer walks four blocks, all the while analysing and digitally documenting the landscape. At the end of the four blocks, psychogeographer turns left and walks eight blocks, all the while analysing and digitally documenting the landscape.
Reason:
The respective minds and collective human mind are, in fact, the most generative computers in existence. Without the human computer, the nonhuman computer (in its pervasive, invasive and ubiquitous state of being today) could not and would not function - or even exist.
Algorithms drive software. The human mind is the software of the human body. Thus, in order to effectively drive the software of the human mind to psychogeographically analyse and document an environment, algorithmic statements must be employed.
Algorithms, like humans, generate, derivate, mutate and permutate when given the chance.
Psychogeographics is about chance.
And you thought algebra was neither interesting nor fun. Ha!
Algorithmic Statement #1:
If "x = 22"
And "x" = "human"
Then "human = four"
Algorithmic Statement #2:
If "22 = (y + 23)"
And "y" = "left"
Then "four = (left + eight)"
Conclusion:
Human = four = (left + eight)
Result:
Human walks four blocks, turns left and walks eight blocks.
Confused?
Algorithmic Statement #3:
"Human" = "psychogeographer"
Translation:
Psychogeographer walks four blocks, all the while analysing and digitally documenting the landscape. At the end of the four blocks, psychogeographer turns left and walks eight blocks, all the while analysing and digitally documenting the landscape.
Reason:
The respective minds and collective human mind are, in fact, the most generative computers in existence. Without the human computer, the nonhuman computer (in its pervasive, invasive and ubiquitous state of being today) could not and would not function - or even exist.
Algorithms drive software. The human mind is the software of the human body. Thus, in order to effectively drive the software of the human mind to psychogeographically analyse and document an environment, algorithmic statements must be employed.
Algorithms, like humans, generate, derivate, mutate and permutate when given the chance.
Psychogeographics is about chance.
And you thought algebra was neither interesting nor fun. Ha!
# posted by alvaro @ 3:31 p. m. 
