"Colonies are self-organizing, decentralized, cooperative. As a whole, they can do more than any one ant or termite or bee can."
That's the notes to one slide in a recent talk at IgniteNOLA I gave on immersive, interactive arts from the 20/20 hindsight perspective of the year 2020.
The main reason I blog is to connect with my colony. I don't expect this to be an overnight endeavor. When I first began blogging about social media and marketing in 2004, it took about four months to find my colony. It was brilliant. Mutual support rocks.
I don't reside in that colony. There are vast constellations of colonies in a pluralistic, diverse universe. You'll know if we're in the same one.
p.s. And I define the word "artist" broadly and boldly. As in the text in this slide of an artisan above.
Here's the Powerpoint (HTML version coming soon) of my immersive, interactive, Internet-embued arts presentation.
Bonus: Some biological tidbits about colony below. Art colonies aren't solely biologically driven, yet the metaphor can stretch to soul food and other collective heart-tending.
"Colonies use a decentralised, self-organised systems of activity guided by swarm intelligence to exploit food sources and environments that could not be available to any single insect acting alone.
There is now strong evidence suggesting that termites are really highly modified, social, wood-eating cockroaches... most cockroaches do not show social characteristics..." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termite"In biology, a colony (from Latin colonia) refers to several individual organisms of the same species living closely together, usually for mutual benefit, such as stronger defences or the ability to attack bigger prey. Some insects (ants and honey bees, for example) live only in colonies." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_(biology)
Ant colony optimization is based on "positive feedback" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization
Gorgeous work, thank you for sharing this method.
Posted by: Saleenadavid | Jul 15, 2010 at 02:32 AM