Re: <documenta X><blast> Index: FLUID GEOGRAPHIES

Morgan Garwood (mgarwood@inch.com)
Sat, 30 Aug 1997 14:50:06 -0400

>>spatial articulations, perspectives and procedures
>>bodies of land
>>bodies of knowledge
>>physical bodies
>>virtual bodies
>>bodies of water
>>"pure" physical space
>>politics of location
>>blurred borders
>>fixed / unfixed boundaries
>>(semi)permeable membranes
>
>lack of programming muscle will keep this wish parked in neutral for the
>moment, but I'd be very exited to see all of these distinctions mapped by
>MerzScope in java language, and then evolve a multi nodal, multi vectored
>conversation through the map... I'll see if I can find the URL of the
>german museum that has put up a merz site... it's quite elementary compared
>to webbing up the "eve andree worldwiew filter-set"....but at least it's
>there to play with... it's a tad spastic, but fun when it works.. you can
>bounce to them via www.merzcom.com...

p.s., attn: Mr. Jordan Crandall, etc... worthwhile future projects dep't...
what if a forum similar to this one existed in cognitive map form: instead
of a linear call and response format, textured with interleavings, as it
now is, we conversed with the assistance of nodes and nodal linkages..?. is
there an informational "law" on the books that explicates what happens when
an extra dimension is added to thought-chains? What would occur if this
discussion moved from "fat 1-D" into a 2-D mapping scheme... personally,
I'd be transfixed if it could rev up to 3-D, but were talking, as the IBM
joes put it, heavy iron.

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