More Thoughts on (D)L.G.Baths

Submitted by felixdragan on Mon, 2007-11-19 14:01.

Here are some more thoughts based on on last week's discussions and feedbacks

- Reconsidering DLGB: from a digital object to a collaborative system.
This notion has been used by Daniel Sharon in his Database Aesthetics text and basically it is about conceptual structuring, temporal development and incorporation of different participants (humans, artificial agents, algorithmic entities, associative networks).
The system is therefore "inter-authorshiped" and, I think, it has a lot to do with notions of media-ecology and social networking.

- One example of such system may be the sets of patterns already identified:
_ accessing / use of the building
_ networks of the (former and present) 'users' of the building (including virtual spaces, such as facebook, myspace etc)
_ visuals (thinking of Tomas's slides)
_ sounds

- Such a collaborative system can define its representation(s) and description(s) (or rules for behavior) and its aesthetics lies on the contradictions(paradoxes) which its incorporates (e.g.: a (digital)building can be immersive and emergent in the same time - or - homogeneous and heterogeneous) ...