Monday, April 27, 2009

why psycho-geographic code walks are so lame

The fact that the "code" is modeled on a procedural programming language, is totally superfluous to the action of a psycho-geographic walk. One could ask, why procedural, why programming, why not a score or a set of instructions? Humans don't inherently operate on pseudo-code, humans relate to code about as much as X-code relates to Acconci's poetry.
The psycho-geographic walk is more related to chance operations, an idea very thoroughly unpacked by Cage and Cunningham. To write it in code without exploring aspects of the experience such as action and space in relation to the body, ritual and architecture, is limiting and gimmicky.

What am I missing? Will somebody please tell me?

Sunday, April 26, 2009

stick it to the man

the notion of monads is one of aristocracy and elitism where a privileged few, tell it like it is, to the teaming masses.
but somehow the me revolution is one based on the idea of monads, that we can all be them now.
i wonder what the resolution will be.