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|-- Data sheet
| `-- 2009, Software art installation
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|-- Description
| `-- The concept of this work is based on the self-organization of
| several natural processes in nature: ant nests taking shape without
| master plan -only the interaction of the ants aware of their own
| work-, flocks of birds grouping into complex patterns in the air
| -without a leader or choreography-, or formation of mineral crystals,
| snowflakes and many other examples in biology, chemistry, sociology or
| economics... etc. Self-organization is a fascinating characteristic,
| almost magical: without being guided by an external source, such
| systems increase the complexity of internal structures to generate
| patterns only understandable on a larger scale. This scale leap is
| where and when everything happens, allowing to observe the phenomenon.
| Artifex wants to see this moment, wants to inspect the formation of
| structures in time of their appearance, etc.
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| The work consists of a program that displays a collection of millions
| of interconnected micro-programs, coexisting in the "ecosystem" of
| the computer's memory, with a code and parameters that define
| them. However, the same way but now within an artificial system,
| the behavior will emerge the set of complex temporal and spatial
| unpredictable configurations. The program performs a visual selection
| of the substructures in the viewpoint at a given time. Thus,
| constructs a linear sequence of the perception of what Artifex, as
| outsider, has from the mass of micro-programs. A user can act beyond
| this sampling, change the selection being made by the program.
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| This proposal explores the duality of self-organization as a spatial
| simulated process and the inherent linearity of the current computer
| systems. The "re-linealization" is done through the selection of
| substructures, which as a process external to the computation of the
| set of micro-programs, returns to the sequential world. Artifex
| constructs its history by collecting samples what happens in an
| abstract ecosystem, where millions of programs work unaware of their
| observer.
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