readings

complexity as practice
The author Tom Davis did his first creation, Swarm Lab,- self organization of single particles into a swarm structure. However he thinks such work is not an interactive installation, not a composition, so much as a mere exploration of complexity in sound. Next he says, putting artificial life to models of musical creativity, however this idea is conflict when in musical terms. He decided to explore the creation of internal music-critic. Then he created "Natural Selection", based on the biological model of female frog mate selection. Autonomous machines, a device outperforms the designer's intentions through the development of a system that restructures its own knowledge-gathering about the world. After his creation, he did not know what that use for, he think that is a blind exploration. However he just interested in internal critics. Then he created "Excuse me!"- sonification of behavior, to the creation of physical installations based on exploration of the underlying philosophy of complex systems. also embedied with environmental context.
From his first installation and approached to his last installation, from each creation, he found something  that he interested in; step by step, in his blind exploration of complexity, he realized social relation- ships found in music creation as well as the relations between complex systems and humans and technological agents and humans.

 Interactivity and Agency in Real Time Systems

 By introduce both Burnham and Gell's theory of art, both of them saw art more than object, - as process , as doing. "Doing theories of art shift the focus from the aesthetics of art objects to the aesthetics of relationships, between people and their environments." Introduce Net Art or Networked Performance, Networked Art emphasizes interactivity, process, and time and is often characterized by real time, indeterminacy, flux, and emergence.

 "Systems can be static/dynamic -> which can be linear/closed loop ->which can be recirculating/self- regulating -> which can be first-/second order -> which can be self-adjusting/learning." 
The agency in doing meaning, take meaningful actions to see the results of our choice.  The system in networked art need a second order to co create thus can be called authentic interaction.

A comment, a case and a history  Gordon Pask

Gorden says , commonly, a man deals with goals at several levels of an hierarchical structure in which some members are freshly formulated and some are in the process of formulation. Man enjoys performing these jointly innovative and cohesive operations. Together, they represent an essentially human and an inherently pleasurably mode of activity...


"Abstract Machines", "Hardware"- Mitchell Whitelaw 
The "Abstract Machines" of a-life by using technique like cellular automata to investigate pattern, form and morphogenesis. in "Hardware," artists adapt Rodney Brooks's "bottom-up" robotics to create embodied autonomous agencies. focusing on a physical manifestation and interactive robotic system...