URBAN CODEMAKERS are hosting a game that invites you to search the City of Melbourne for IDEOTAGs. Players of the game participate in an urban renewal project through play. Three guilds from the Micronation of Ludea are developing competing proposals for January 31st 2011. Join them now…
The CrossMedia Ecologist is sparking up this week. Their nonsense is uncategorizable. There is no throughline, no data, no way of modelling their behaviour, no sense in what they say. It is a jumbled up collection of thoughts and scattered memes scrambling for darwinian survival. While they may share some goals with us, their means – if they even have means – are so disjointed that they may as well appear to be nothing at all. They encourage play, but it is broken and unstructured. They encourage exploration, but it is goal-less and without a framework. They encourage experimentation, but with their noise they actively undermine our own experiments.
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The program that we set up and attempted to run at this late stage in the game looks certain to collapse. The amount of noise is overwhelming. We are unsure if the structure that we were bringing to life will survive.
We will make one last ditch attempt to save it.
And then we will mourn.
She always does things differently…
The Crossmedia Ecologist has passed some IDEOTAGs across to the first operative. He has been in action on the streets of Melbourne. Unannounced, ecologies have been tagged here there and everywhere.
… and our site is playing up today (?)
The Third Language is a Ludean family of languages that explore parallels in processes of biological and linguistic evolution. These languages share similar rules of interaction and use. There are dynamics in the interactions of the coloured tags: orange beats green, green beats blue, blue beats orange. They share digital DNA that is interpreted by different rules common to signs and symbols, such as those that govern symmetry, geometry and intersection.
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