The Crystalpunk Workshop For Soft Architecture: No 4 the Crystalpunk Room will be to the Smart House The "Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture" will evolve an empty room from nothingness into unknown states of technologiecal enhancement. The workshop is located in a room wich is also its subject: it crates a space where those wanting to become active at the cutting-edge where art, new media, architecture, design and programming intersect, can meet and collaborate. Unlike the alphabet that always knows where it is going, this workshop does not. YOU CAN BE CRYSTALPUNK TOO! The workshop will run from: SEPTEMBER 10 to DECEMBER 17, 2005 We are open every: TUESDAY (19.00-23.00) and SATURDAY (14.00-18.00) at Oudenoord 275, Utrecht 22/10/2005- No 4: A Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture event: Speculative Organisation With Saul Albert, Mary Harrington, Wilfried Hou Je Bek Saturday, 22 October 2005 14.00-18.00 22/10/2005- No 4: Bring-Your-Own-Beer Party by everyone Saturday, 22 October 2005 Until late. In the end the answer to a hotly debated topic as the source of consciousness might turn out be that consciousness is a property (not its goal, not its function but a by-product) of neuronic organisation. And what's more: this organisation is neither a chaos or an orderly engineering-feat, but a collection of hacks, the result of connective growth that could easily be labelled crystalline. Crystalline in the crystalpunk sense of inorganic adaptiveness dealing with randomness, not in the sense of chemical eugenics employed by jewellers. But broad majestic views aside, there are pressing and more concrete reason to look at speculative ways to organise people, talent and skills, as a project like the Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture obviously does. The structure of a workshop (or brainstorm session or development meeting) must be included in the list when analysing it is as a system with input and output. Which is to say: what can come out of a workshop is in certain ways restricted within the boundaries posed by its organisation. Conditions as the availability of time, the willingness of participants to speak up, the open-mindedness of the chairman to allow apparent of-topic ideas, are all determining the quality of the workshop's outcome. This event on Speculative Organisation is centred around the personal experiences, motivations and aims of the speakers in their efforts in phrasing a system that allows human interaction on their way to produce something, with minimal intrusion and obstruction to the process. The best manager is the moment itself. Saul Albert on herding cats. Twenteenth Century, The University of Openess, the Cartographic Congress, Dorkbot London, The World Summits on Free Information and NODE.London are some processes and groups I've been involved in which each person, organisation, institution and process invovled was either completely at odds, or just didn't understand each other, even if they thought they were 'collaborating'. Most of my interest is as much about having big arguments in preparation for the actual events as about performing sneaky acts of subterfuge and subtle coersion that allow people, skills and knowledge to make the most of themselves during the event. It's not benevolent dictatorship, that would be easy, this model of organisation is like having your own secret service and a case of multiple personality disorder. Mary Harrington on GOOM. Generative Object Oriented Mythology (GOOM) is elusive and self-defining. GOOM describes, powers and emerges from memetic engineering and applied chaos theory. It is the glue that holds realities together. It is a myth of creation, a strategy for creation and its own object of study. Typically, it started as a joke, but has already proliferated meanings well beyond the buzzword white noise of its inception. URL: http://socialfiction.org/GOOM.html Wilfried Hou Je Bek on crystalline strategies. "Unlike the alphabet that always know where it is going, this workshop does not", the explanation for the Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture which Wilfried wrote proclaims. Crystallisation learns us that inorganic matter can self-assemble in adaptively grown but resilient structures: a mindless process of organisation. The CPWfSA tries to implement this in a human environment. |
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