Update to the Starter file at the Cathedral
[Written @ the Cathedral:]
– I’m trying to build a game here, the Cathedral Game. It’s going to take a long time, because i can only work on it in my spare time. The purpose of the Game is very complicated and mysterious as well as utterly simple: you can read about it in the Introduction to Cathedral Building.
– I’m also trying to develop some artistic publishing tools, mainly for publishing literature on the internet. I use my own work to test these things. I’m trying to make this kind of private content management system, because nothing on the market seems to satisfy my needs. I think they might become useful for others too, so i’ll be releasing source code for anyone who’s interested in alternatives to the predominantly object-oriented soft that’s out there. I don’t make any promises though, because time is limited and i wouldn’t know when anthing gets finished
– When you combine both strategies, and add my constant need to write, or mess about artistically, what you get is what you see: a process started in september 2004 and rapidly (?) turning into a field of artistic research. Given sufficient time, the central questions i would like to formulate some answers to with this kind of research would sound like:
What kind of writing will be the result of writing with tools that are co-defined, simultaneously developed, with the writing itself?
In how far will this ‘website’ be writing itself ?
Can you get a process similar to (Semantic) Web Services up and running based on different ontologies than what’s being used now?
Can Software Agents be programmed to behave artistically? Poetically? Ethically?Is there such a thing as a poetic algorhythm? What would it look like in, say, JAVA?
What happens to text when you put it on a publicly available URL? What happens to poetry? Philosophical texts? What’s all this talk about liquid data?
Untsoweiter. Working with processes in a project of artistic research implies by its very nature that you do not exclude questions, that you are aware that formulating a good question is a very rare event, because such a question implies the possibility of a right or meaningful answer. So, primarily, i hope the questions will get better, in time.
