The value of computer
systems will not be determined by how well they can be used in the
applications they were designed for, but how easily they can be fit to cases that were never
thought of.
The effective
use of technology does not lie in the automation of the past.
My Interests:
Pursue a joint
PhD in Emergent New Media at the Center for Emergent Arts, Design, and
Science (CEADS)
.
Specific Interests:
Knowledge Cartography and Ecology.
A key question
is whether valuable insights into complexity, vital to governance and self-
governance of social processes, may only be representable and comprehensible through
presentations of an essentially artistic nature. It is then their aesthetic properties that have
valuable ordering and integrative functions. Given the well- demonstrated weaknesses of
current international policy- making, it would be unwise to assume that this is not the case.
I hope in part
to demonstrate the feasibility of enhancing comprehension, and navigating
complexity, using features uniquely dependent upon the riches and subtleties of artistic insight.
The concern here is with the design of a flexible architecture to demonstrate how the power of
both "scientific" and "artistic" approaches may be integrated to enhance comprehension
and
navigation of complexity -- as well as offering new forms of creativity in response to complex
conditions.
I hope to develop
the software (iMap) and process necessary to the new disciplines implied
above.
These complementary
tools involve a variety of overlapping research challenges. The proposal
focuses on developing application of tools rather than on the tools themselves.
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