Lose Control, Gain Influence
Background 1 - Control and Communication, and Observation :
The big promise of SciTech : Weltbeherrschung, alles was man versteht kann man auch in den Griff kriegen. Illusion of Control of the world
first order cybernetics - the study of observed systems (Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, 1948)
second order cybernetics - the study of observing systems (Heinz von Foerster, Margaret Mead, Cybernetics of Cybernetics, from ca. 1968)
Radical Constructivism - Ernst von Glasersfeld
Unsere Wahrnehmung der Welt ist immer Konstruktion, "good fit" zwischen Modell und Beobachtung
erkenntnistheoretische Bescheidenheit, pragmatische Sicht auf erreichbare Einsicht
Uebersicht zu Radical Constructivism :
http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/key.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_epistemology
Background 2 - Ueberraschung / Surprise
Margaret Boden (AI researcher, psychologist)
- Creativity - three roads to surprise
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combinational
- combining unlikely items (chocolate with chili)
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exploratory
- moving through possibility space of known domain, field, style,
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transformational
- changes understanding of the game
(historical vs. personal newness of invention)
Hansjoerg Rheinberger (historian of science, MPI Berlin)
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epistemic things and experimental setups
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experimental setups are surprise generators
Background 3 - electronic/digital/hybrid musical instruments as an example domain for different control models
- chadabe keynote,
- LCGI paper adc
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standard instrument mapping model follows analog instruments, and ignores special flexibility of software
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give up full control, focus on listening, make decisions by intuition, not by mental model of technical structures
Joel Ryan - forget how the instrument is made, then one can learn to play it.
http://jr.home.xs4all.nl/MusicInstDesign.htm
Michel Waisvisz - http://www.crackle.org/