Every second Wednesday of the month, at Goldsmiths college in New
Cross, London, some people are meeting to discuss, around a table,
different projects and researches concerning media art and related
fields of inspection. On November 12th Gabriel Menotti presented a very
interesting text entitled ‘Computation as dynamic topography’, part of
his research at University of Sao Paulo. His approach is presenting
computation as a specif process that cannot be described as simple
text, because, in short, computation is a dynamic event happening
inside a machine, thus it is not text in itself, and probably software
should not be defined as text at all. On November 26th the project Virtual Entity
will be presented and discussed. The door is open and any interested
person is welcome to come in and participate, we are gathering at 18:00
at Whitehead Building, room 117.
Digital artificial world is structured by specific rules that are
somewhat different from those expressed and manifested in the physical
world we normally experience. One relevant difference is the definition
of identity … If software, as source code, is considered text, an
executable is something more malicious, composed, an ‘organon’
activating a different functioning. Be software a daemon, or a
polumetis spirit, it is not a simple entity.
