Transmission 007 : GRAMMAR 1.0

The form of the knowledge and its continuous transformations will be ruled by parameters. Those parameters are related to the way the knowledge is structured (by successive conditions), to the way it is constructed (by the expert during the session) and to the nature of the knowledge itself (this nature has nothing to do with any idea of ‘truth’, it’s linked to the history of the knowledge and the corpus of problematics that it deals with).

We actually distributed those parameters in three big families (We are currently working on this classification, some boundaries remaining quite porous and not well defined, no word seems actually enough accurate to define completely the field of knowledge that it’s supposed to cover). The first one are parameters related to conditions, i.e: find the tool, open the valve; the second one contains parameters related to deformation, i.e: use the tool to cut the wire, let the air get out of the valve; the last family will be the ones of parameters of translations, i.e, the wire is cut correctly, the air completely filled the room.

Each form could be shaped by several parameters of different types. The interference between some of those parameters will lead in some case to contradictory transformations, unexpected deformations and emergences.

What we tried to do with this first grammar what to define series of (simple) deformations applied to a circle, make a first classification of the shapes produced by families of distortion and then link them to parameters.

Transmission 006 : Action of Particles on a sphere

Extract from a particles simulation. The particles are trapped in a sphere and pushing its boundaries / mo Y09

If we consider a simulation based on the progressive placement and displacement of data, the first think that we should think about is to create what will be the coordinates of the world.
Those points having no materiality, no “flesh”, containing no more information than a word, a definition, a number or a value, will be the backbone, partly visible, partly hidden, of the interface.
When the expert will start to construct is own ‘system’ on/in the ‘existing system’, those points could be used as triggers, entries, first tools, foundations for the system to come.
Most of those points will be at the beginning of the construction part of the ‘semantic cloud’ associated to the field of knowledge of the expert.
Each new entry of the expert creates new points; those points being the forces, coordinated or antagonistic, transforming the shape of the world. The materiality of the interface will be the result of those forces.