Douglas R. Hofstadter. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid. Basic Books, Inc., New York1979, xxi + 777 pp.

Webb, Judson

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“…With no where to start and no answer yet known, we are left to tackle the question of a working methodology as an active, at times explosive, but most likely in flux notion. As Sanford Kwinter says, 'method is everything, data is nothing' [13]. We live in a world where the process is more real than the object but we need the objects to justify the existence of our processes.…”

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Dendritic malformation: a case study on adaptable tectonic systems

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2015

Int. J. DNE

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Departing from an understanding that our society's most acute architectural dilemma is its indefinite urban augmentation in an otherwise limited Natural context, the Dendritic Malformation research proposes to develop the complex relationships between form, space, structure, materiality and the senses, as a proposition for future modes of inhabiting and constructing the built environment. Our cities are the major conduit for global consumption of energy, air and water. The buildings we live in are the main pollutants throughout their entire life span: fabrication of building components, construction, occupation and demolition. While there is a large body of research dedicated to building green and sustainable, little attention is paid to the potential of building components as adaptive, transformative structures, which are responsive to their environment in that they adapt in shape and function to the immediate context. This involves reciprocity within the various components of a building, allowing for one element to incrementally and fluidly mutate to become another, similarly to how nature produces malformations during its natural selection process. Structure, for example, could serve multiple functions by incorporating various programmatic necessities, and through a formal and functional cross pollination of uses and performances could fluidly propagate to engage the interior (building envelope) and exterior (landscape) of the built environment. Within this context, Dendritic Malformation challenges the preconceived notion that architectural structure needs to be discontinuous, monotonous, rigid, protected behind thermal barriers and separated from its surroundings. Dendritic mutations are malleable solutions of responsive systems with a variegated ordered inspired by the self-organizing processes of nature.

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“…'Implicit to the concept of Strange Loops is the concept of infinity, since what else is a loop but a way of representing an endless process in a finite way?' [11]. As seen in Escher's 'Metamorphosis', infinity plays a large role.…”

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Dendritic malformation: a case study on adaptable tectonic systems

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2015

Int. J. DNE

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Randall¹

2018

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Fiction would be distinguished from lying or deceit by being a "shared pretense" (Schaeffer) between the author and the reader, cooperating partners bound by a reading pact where everyone respects the rules of the game. However, some fictions question this relationship of complicity by refusing to share with the reader the precise place or nature of the pretense, which would then not be shared but rather hidden, and therefore not playful but serious. Modern fiction has largely exploited the figure of the unreliable narrator as a source of errors, even lies, of which the reader falls victim. But what can we conclude when this narrator, the author's scapegoat, does not exist? We will explore a corpus of Quebec novels where apparent fiction is a lure behind which lies the true place of pretense. These broken reading pacts cannot be blamed on a scapegoat narrator but rather on the real author - cunning, cheating - who imposes himself as the final authority, pulling the strings not only of the story, but of its reader.

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Editorial. AI, Arts & Design: Questioning Learning Machines

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2020

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Explorations of the relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI), the arts, and design have existed throughout the historical development of AI. We are currently witnessing exponential growth in the application of Machine Learning (ML) and AI in all domains of art (visual, sonic, performing, spatial, transmedia, audiovisual, and narrative) in parallel with activity in the field that is so rapid that publication can not keep pace. In dialogue with our contemplation about this development in the arts, authors in this issue answer with questions of their own. Through questioning authorship and ethics, autonomy and automation, exploring the contribution of art to AI, algorithmic bias, control structures, machine intelligence in public art, formalization of aesthetics, the production of culture, socio-technical dimensions, relationships to games and aesthetics, and democratization of machine-based creative tools the contributors provide a multifaceted view into crucial dimensions of the present and future of creative AI. In this Artnodes special issue, we pose the question: Does generative and machine creativity in the arts and design represent an evolution of “artistic intelligence,” or is it a metamorphosis of creative practice yielding fundamentally distinct forms and modes of authorship?

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Douglas R. Hofstadter. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid. Basic Books, Inc., New York1979, xxi + 777 pp.

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Dendritic malformation: a case study on adaptable tectonic systems

Dendritic malformation: a case study on adaptable tectonic systems

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