System of Knowing

by R. Justin Stewart (behance). Installation, sculpture, mixed media, colorful. Zip ties, teflon orings, ink on paper, wood, paint. 2009

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Grid Index

by Carsten Nicolai, 2009. “Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. It is an essential reference book for designers, visual artists, architects, researchers and mathematicians.” Gestalten Verlag. short interview at XLR8R. Carsten Nicolai: Gridlocked.


The House of Librango

DAG is Andrea Flamenco and Gabriel Bach.”At a time when the convergence of computation and biogenetics is ushering all of us into the so-called post-human era, an immanent future that is destined to be filled with various forms of biogenetic mutation at every level of the organic and the inorganic, ranging from transgenic mutation of crops to the synthesis of new forms of species including human clones, that constitutes the cultural universe of humanity while simultaneously enveloped by what, currently, is referred to as the inevitable emergence of a global ubiquitous computing system that connects everything with everything imaginable […]”

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His (Whitehead) theoretical investigations led him to conclude that process produces, elaborates, and maintains the form or structure of material and organisms and that it consists of a complex series of exchanges between an organism and its environment. form and behavior emerges from process. thus process has priority over product - both ontologically and epistemologically.
While the implications of this line of reasoning can be extended to design research, the processist view suggests that understanding form is not as important as understanding the process in which form is embedded. form and behaviour emerge from process of complex systems.
if we broaden whitehead’s theories to include a computational approach, algorithms can be construed as processes.
— therese tierney, biological networks: on neurons, callular automata, and relational architecture. in network practices. (alfred north whitehead)