Formal Systems in Art and Society
(metamorphology):
-Formal
Systems in a general
Context
(logic, rationality and irrationality, conciouness and cognition)
-Methodological Problems
-hierarchies of problems and sub-problems
-parallel and sequential evolution of concepts
-linguistic tautologies
-The
significance of different organisational principles (conceptual
and concrete "languages")
-the role of "Language" in creative problem solving
-Space as Language
-Axiomatic Systems, models, metaphors,
languages, divination and calculi
-Definitions and Taxonomies
-Internal and external
-Ontology and
epistemology
-Specialists and generalists
-Abstract and concrete
-Conceptual and Physical Languages,
Models
and Systems
-Language systems (Alphabet, Grammar, interpretation)
-Oral, text-based and non-verbal systems
-development of system and use of system (exploration and expression)
-organic/inorganic, material/immaterial, process/information, real/ideal
-Topology of Space (number, memory, ordered sets and dimensions)
-System and process (relationships and context: converting data
to information)
-Technologies (practical physical languages)
-Cultural Systems (practical conceptual languages)
-Media, Methods, Meanings
-Art
and computers
-General
remarks with regard to Historical/Theoretical contexts
-Historical
Context for Art
(Europe/Philippines)
-Historical
context for Computing
(America/Europe/Philippines)
-(artistic/cognitive/cultural) Computing metaphors
-Escher, Goedel Bach
-printmaking (layered
hierarchies)
-puppetry (connectivity)
-painting (exploring
the image)
-weaving (rule-based image
construction)
-Historical
context for "Computer Art"
(Europe/Philippines)
-Non-Historical
Theoretical Context for "Computer Art"?
-Conceptual Models
-Tool
-Medium
-Metaphor
(local/universal?)
-Practical Experiments
-Amiga Programmes
-Java Programmes
-Theoretical Context for non-computational Art
(local and universal?)
-Social/Political Systems
-Practical (Historical, Cognitive and practical conditions of
development)
-Cultural (cognitive) Contexts (practical and theoretical)
-Political (control) Contexts (practical and theoretical)
-Economic (resource) Systems (practical and theoretical)
-material goods and abstract money systems (barter, trade and communes)
-economy and ecology
-Historical developments in different (social, temporal and geographic)
contexts
-tribalism
-feudalism
-nationalism (dictatorships and democracies)
-imperialism
-autonomy
-Theoretical (abstract, non-implemented, conceptual topologies)
-Spatial, Linguistic and Cognitive systems
-Models, dialogues, predictions and therapies
-Systems of organisation (conceptual and physical)
-Sustainabilty and unsustainable (regenerative?) systems
-static and dynamic systems
-systems of repression and "freedom"
-types of repression and limits of freedom
-Anarchy and Order
-Individualism
and Collectivism (commercial and social)
-Top-down or bottom-up (or both?)
-Motivation and responsibility (enlightened self-interest)
-maintaining individual reponsibility in a communal system
(ownership and stewardship)
-the corporation
-the monastery (economic and social organisation)
-the first communists?
-the first capitalists?
-the guild systems
-Coherence and Diversity
-systems of acceptance and punishment
-(Practical and cognitive) Restraints on organisational freedom
-Finding High-Level (abstract) Solutions
-developing a language for morphology
-developing a language for conceptual interfacing