August 15, 2011

reset redirect refocus

so today we looked through where we were going and we had some refining ideas...


the biggest issue has always been the power of the human - and the fact that the human presence tends to drive the action, making them the main agent, putting plants into the position of the object being acted upon.

so - big change - humans as actants in the system have been removed.

now the focus is on created a network of plants, all acting together (still in motion), but only by their own behaviours. so regardless of human presence, they still function and do things. sure, humans entering the system could then influence that behaviour, but importantly, they don't begin it, or dictate it.

so to get going we have to make a mini-system of 3 plants, build mechanisms that will make them move, build sensors so they can detect each other's motion, and find a way to make them all behave in relation to each other.

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