• chinese movies about flying (started 2 years ago - crouching tiger, hidden dragon…)
• the movements are exactly what cocky is trying to do
• old chinese movies — you still see the ropes + fake effects
• images from flying birds + movie - the travelling birds
• birds in water - flocking and swarming
• cape horn - ship around 1900 - sailing artound - good images in the storm

• looking for the feeling of movement
• 'the hopping feeling'
• scene in the trees - bending of the tree
• losing gravity + refinding it again

• 'i want flocks of people to move like that'
• rhythms in it - slow / speeding up of things
• tempo of a mosquito being born

• stilts with springs
• anti gravity parabolic flight
• kitzou dubois - art in space
• underwater choreograpy, choreography on trampolines
• isabel rocamora

• mainly research about the system on the bungees, ropes, harnesses
• wall gmes –> rock climbing clubs

• different air densities - desert, madagaskar, mountains, city walls

• easy to experience so you dont have to train for months – you can develop a skill if you want

• ladders
• la guarra

• harnesses that are safe enough, painless, but with enough freedom of movement

• inflatable structures (rewana)

• establishing movement from her childhood dreams, for both untrained + trained people

• tools - general, later context based

• p~lot rpg – personal transoformation

• alchemy - mandala, unity of oposites, separation/purification/recombination
• adam mclean - animal symbolism in alchemy
• visual mantras for chemical changes
• cycle of colour changes
• quintessence
• animal shapes representation of whats going on in the flasks
• unity of opposits - as above so below… cyclical processes
• animals and colours from the essey - to show the stages of transformation
• card game about personal transformation - tarot- randomness a-causality
• we all create our own realities + there is synchronicity to link it to the events in you life + tarot
• projecting charatceristics of ourselves on environment
• tarot - reflection of your own reality

• two events - psychic + physical - interlinked
• acausal opening between events
• scientifically – why do we have the impression of causality?
• jung synchronicity to explain acausality
• natural randomness – can cause divinity -

• tarot in an alchemical context – scientific context – idea of progress - always a step away

• tarot history
• 15-18 ct – game cards from egypt, islam, china –> linked with card games
• 1420 in norhtern italy - from islamic culture
• gypsies brought tarot from egypt
• 'god and birds'
• trumpf - game characters based on dante's cosmos

• french - ignored the rules of the italian game

• from the 19th ct it became a secret game
• the church pursuing heretics- incorporating secret knowledge into a game
• church - learning cosmology through game???????? what happened to it when it became as a secret game?

• minor arcana - cards today from the 14th ct - made for an italian king
• major arcana - where do the symbols come from?

• 'ganzenbord' - numerology – path through them – dices to add randomness

• game - players participate in the tarot + rpg –> synchronicity
• rpg+tarot → integrate it through personal transformation
• need a certain belief into the system
• corporeal/digital – situated rpg
• creation of new symbols? –> gnomic
• 2 sides of cards - 1 with lina's drawings, one blank, for the players to fill in
• 2 goals - 1 linear narrative, one personal transformation
• 1 side - the character with a global goal, one with a less explicit which one
• find the 'opposite' to unify with — how do you find balance between your character and the opposites
• people make their own stages by the connections that players make with the symbols

• history of tarot
• card games
• myth of how the tarot came about - dante's cosmos
• nummerology – looking at 7 - moon, death, disease * about 100 different styles
• how is the game built? - structure of the games + analyse the cards
• game structure for the p~lot game
• luminescent installation - with a game - you as a card/character are going on a path
• responsive floor - the process of walking, physical game
• go more back than 15th century - china, japan
• playing cards
• museum of games - in UK

• 3d live games in physical spaces based on 2d cards
• material research with small materials - linking with card-games
• using printing techniques to print symbols and attributes with the cards in an rpg
• material experiments - luminescence, conductivity, mechanical changes.

• cost effective self sufficient community wireless network connected to the internet
  • problems - power, internet connection
  • place where it is installed, units talking to other units - local
  • outside world - this is where we are, we are dangerous and have TCP IP
  • txOom - on the edge of the outside world
  • TCP IP protocol explanation….. with milk boxes and conveyor belts for wired networks

• radio - good thing for getting info from one place to another
  • how to deal with reassembling info packets wirelessly
  • higher frequency - less distance, higher bandwidth and vice versa
  • well defined community within 100s of metres, with line of sight
  • trees and water are a big stopper to the wirelessly sent info
  • high frequency - txOom like - can go up to app 30km

• another problem - transmitting data between the local village and the global centres from 100-2000km away
  • electricity and powering problem - solved by solar technology
  • most of it is photovoltaic - not very efficient → 17% - research into increasing efficiency - spectrum of visible light Ga instead of Si - increased to 35% efficiency
  • other approaches - metal in liquid or gel suspension - problem with reducing chemicals - while the photovoltaic cells can stay out 'forever'
  • what technology do you want to put in place in these remote villages to aid the people + what are you going to do with these
  • different combinations of technologies to come to an optimal solution
  • antennas and lenghts…

• reading on 'context' in the context of culture
  • social contexts - Club Med? what is the problem with it?
  • which context is interesting for us, and why is it new?

• culture + cultural analysis Geertz - anthropology written 20-30years ago
  • thick and thin description in anthropology
  • thin - describing the action
  • thick - context, circumstances…
    • describing culture - seminal to use thick description

• etnography - manuscript of shaped behaviour
  • culture is something public, because meaning is public, –> shared consensus
  • human behaviour happens in twitches
  • culture is not something symbolic, homogenous
  • culture - not a power, but is a context which can be thickly described
  • problem with cultural institutions - describe it thinly, which is a problem..?

• common sense as a cultural system:
  • 2 extremes of culture: common sense and art –> negotiate the position in between (foam?)
  • we need to position ourselves in the continuum between the two?
  • innovation is not categorisable
    • problem with breaking out of the box

Flusser: Writings, Minnesota University Press

• prag-london-brazil-france-germany
• communication theory
• home, homelessness, what it means to be in exile
• german Mcluhan
• only now his stuff is translated in english
• poetic, clear writing
• creativity
• difference between heim and wohnung
• patriotism is a symptom of an aesthetic disease
• heimat - a habit
• very good quotes to be put in the twiki!

• info structures
  • linear sequences diachronic
  • surface structurtes synchronic
  • spatial structures 3d synchronic

• 2 codes:
  • discursive codes - sender - receiver – transmission point a-b
  • dialogical - message oscillates between participants - synthetises during the dialog —> emergent code

• Material Metaphor: Katherine Hales: Writing Machines
• Posthuman … Cybernetic / Bad Literary Cryticism

• writing machines
• material metaphor - say describing TCP-IP protocol with milk cartons
• –> grounded in the world
• metonym-metaphore debate?
• reading electronic texts - not taking the medium into account → context

what is a symposium?

• –> orgiastic debate
• - victorian food banquets, instead of sexual acts
• - homosexual conotations
• - foam banquet by december

• evaluating the tgarden system
• txoom user testing
• child play environments - instead of putting them into playgrounds, you put them into playSpaces like tgarden
• research on play and play spaces
• extract the heuristics of playspaces
• psychology, play/learning,
• –> unpredictable behaviour - materials that can be transformed in different ways
• the environment should be changeable (sandcastles better than dead tree trunks)
• free movement, spontaneity, flexibility
• 'hypothetical constructs' that jehan read are too abstract - unable to test it
• subject matter and subject testing - a very fuzzy research method
• this week @ FoAM - made the subject matter is even fuzzyier
• in HCI - u have to know your users - top down approach - building a user model before making a product
• yahoo site design - middle out approach - top down + darwinian approach to selecting what works - everything that doesnt lead to a purchase - iterative process
• design/design forecasting how do designers categorise people not for mentality groups — send info.!
• what is the goal of txoom?
• effectiveness of responsive spaces
• in artistic projects do we have to tailor things to the users or should we tailor for rupture?
• difference in testing effectiveness of design products and artistic spaces
• designing an experiment for just children:
• people with given goals - with games
• people without goals - without games
• project should be done by may - she needs our input in the process