VideoVortex: Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism

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The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism

+ Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo [Japan Science Promotion Society, Fellow] + NPO Creative Commons Japan, Director + Dividual.jp, co-CEO

Chen Han Long Dominique

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2008.01.19..... Dominick Chenコモンズの臨界点と情報プロクロニズムThe Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism

■ NTT ICC HIVE：Open Source initiative on a Media Art Archive

→ Open AudioVisual Archive: Design▷Implementation▷Deployment

■ NPO Creative Commons Japan→ Promotion of Open Contents in the Net society

■ Research on extending the notion of OpennessDesigning data plasticity and prochronism→ Theory into practice: TypeTrace (dividual)

Background

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Participation as transparent, natural process:

＋Plasticity / Portability [Creative Commons]

＋Prochronism [Type Trace]

→ Autonomy of work | Structural Coupling of Author - Spectator (participant)→ redefinition of authorship / commons

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Q : W h a t i s t h e i m m a n e n t dynamics of participation vis-à-v i s t h e c r e a t i o n o f d i g i t a l contents?

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Q: How can we understand of data generation and distribution in the light of system theories?

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A: Participation to Conversation:Monologue, Dialogue → “Symlogue”, “Polylogue”[Junzo Kawada, “On Oral Tradition”]

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A : r e - d e f i n i n g t h e i d e a o f individual authorship, and that of the Commons.

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Open Contents

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photo: Joi Ito

Lawrence Liang

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Akihabara-Comike

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photo: stormstill

(Flickr)

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Akihabara-Comike

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Akihabara-Comike2

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PRO AMA

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■2007１．Exposure of ’Excessive Inertia’

２．Birth of Meta-platform

３．Critical Point of classical UGC

■2008１．Explosion of Open Contents

２．Ubiquitous platform of data creation [iPhone/DS]

３．Evaluation of Process-driven data

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＋ Massiveness of Tools

　＋ production and publishing united

　＋ proliferation of open contents

＋Recursive stratification of Web API

　＋meta-platform (FB/HI5-->Slide/RockYou)

　＋War over Openness（Facebook/OpenSocial）

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Critical Point of the Commons

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あなたの歌姫

BY: AZUMA

sm1085336http://creazuma.14.dtiblog.com/| First major CC’d content on Nicovideo:+20,000 play | +90,000 comments

| Algorithm (VOCALOID)+ Library (Voice)＋UGC（Song）+UGM（Nicovideo）

| MassiveMultiuserOnline Creativity

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＋ ‘Comments’ becoming constituents of the original work.

+ affecting both authorship and spectatorship+ coupling the two parties as a ‘communal author’

+ from ‘Dialogue’ to ‘Symlogue’+ narrative control shared+ time-process nurtures the content (fermentative)

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“Autonomie et Connaissance – Essai sur le Vivant”, Eds. du Seuil, Paris, 1988. (Varela, F., Principles of Biological Autonomy, Elsevier/North-Holland, New York, 1979, 306 pp.)

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1. stepped

2. gradual

プロセスの評価

1. stepped

productiondes molécules

constitutives de la

définissentla frontière

membranesdynamiquecellulaire

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2. gradual

プロセスの評価

productionof responses

constitutive of thedefine theboarder of

authorshipdiscourse

(social dynamics)

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Justin Foote, The Magic of M. C. Escher. (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-6720-0) [Wikimedia Commons]M.C.Escher, “Drawing Hands”, 1948, Lithograph

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Hypercycle structure. Ii = RNA matrices, Ei = replication enzymes (i = 1,2,...,n)

in Eigen M. and P. Schuster. The Hypercycle: A principle of natural self-organization, Springer, Berlin, 1979

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Hypercyclic Operational Closure of Digital Contents. Vi = “Works”, Di = Derivative Works (i = 1,2,...,n)

V2

V1

Dn

Vn

V4V3

D2

D3D4

D1

Operational Closure (Extended Authorship)

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We will call an autonomous system ‘operationally closed’ when its organization is caraterized by processes that:

a) are recursively dependent one to another for the generation and realization of the processes themselves, and,

b) are constitutive of the system as a recognizable unity in a space (domain) where the processes exist

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Heteronomous Autonomoussystem (von Neumann) system (Wiener)

Fundamental logics of operation correspondence coherence

Type of organization input/output, operational closure, input/output, operational closure, transfer function own behaviour

Mode of interaction world given by instructions an emerging worldworld given by instructions an emerging worldand of reprensetations of significations

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Q: What to open up next?

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TypeTrace ver. 1.0 StandAlonePlayer/Editor [OSX]

Process-oriented Word Processor

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‣ ■ Current problem in designing Digital Commons：a) separation between function (FLOSS) and expression (FreeCulture）　⇒　OSS model production scheme of expressive works that are

autonomous, self-referential and stochastic process-driven.

b) absence of evaluation criteria for dynamic time-based process of data: we are still assuming at a ‘end product’ level.　⇒　end product evaluation tends to be biased.

　⇒　more transparent and just evaluation based on the historicity

of generation

2008.01.12.....ドミニク・チェン | Dominick Chen

コモンズの臨界点と情報プロクロニズムThe Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism

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• Process-based data

• CVS/SVN (software dev.) [function]

• Wiki / GDocs (content dev.) [function]

• TT (personal writing) [expression]



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Record/Stop

Pause Rec

Play/Pause

PlaybackSpeed

Font

Time Difference Effect

Fullscreen

SpeedPause Rec

Play/PausePlay/PausePlay/PausePlay/Pause/Stop/Stop FontFont FullscreenFullscreen

TimeSliderTimeSlider

TypeTrace Basic UI

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Name

Recorded DateSearch

Time Length

Search Recorded Date

Name Time Length

TypeTrace Chapter Records

Title

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Chaillot 2007.01Chaillot 2007.01

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Exhibition in Prague: CIANTI Media Art Center

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・Creating access to the Micro-creativity

・Recording Lifelog of the Work

・Database that evolves synchronously to the human existence

・Evaluation of process as a culture



・Digital materialism

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Wiki &TT

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• Wiki’s revision

• transparency

• historicity

• attributability



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Wiki

[Artifice]last.fm

miniblog

blog

Nike+iPod

TypeTrace

Facebook

[Discreet Process]

[Continous Process]

Vlog

[Unconscious]

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Data Prochronism

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#49│ネット公正論─データの逆襲……2

表現の領土性、その生と死の相補性Series: Netgerechtigkeit: Rache der Daten 2Territoriality of Expression, Its Complementarity of Life and Death

#48│ネット公正論─データの逆襲……1

プロクロニスト・マニフェステーションSeries: Netgerechtigkeit: Rache der Daten 1Prochronist Manifestation

#47 | プロクロニズムとその都市への適用について│On Prochronism and its Urban Application

#40-41-42-43 | Architecture的／Archive的物理＝情報空間の享楽的な統合について#40-41-42-43 | Architecture的／Archive的

＋Thesis on Prochronism

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C : M a s s i v e O p e n C o n t e n t s t r i g g e r e d t r a n s c l u s i o n a n d migrat ion/port ing of data and creative agents between different d om a i n s , c ommo d i f y i n g t h e chains of creation everywhere.

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C:The prob lem o f the des i gn philosophy of the commons lies in the fact it relies on the rigid idea of ‘individuality’. We need to c rea te an economy based on s o f t e r boa rde r s o f c o l l e c t i v e authorship．

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C:We should not separate Agent and Environment. The boarder will emerge by and inside an operational closure of contents coupled structurally.

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＋　What is the Umwelt of Digital Contents．　＋　Meta：POV of Lessig

　　＋Architecture（Code）　＋Law

　　＋Market ＋Norm

＋　What is the vital information of data．　＋　micro：metadata level

　　＋plasticity (license / interface)

　　＋prochronism (embryology)

　　＋derivative chain

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“...produce arguments which will convince me that this objects is the remains of a living thing. “

symmetry?68


serial (ontogenetic) homology / 個体内相同69


phylogenetic homology / 系統間相同70

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Elements constitutive of Data Prochronism

＋　[ontogenetic homology]: vertical tracking of embryological process

　＋　reenatability of immanent recursive patterns

＋　[phylogenetic homology]: horizontal tracking of derivative works

　＋　linking different versions with common set of metadata

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some contemporary connections

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some contemporary connections

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- <toptracks user="zastava81" type="overall">- <track><artist mbid="7002bf88-1269-4965-a772-4ba1e7a91eaa">Glenn Gould</artist><name>Bach (JS): Two Part Invention #1 In C,BWV 772</name><mbid/><playcount>444</playcount><rank>1</rank>-<url>http://www.last.fm/music/Glenn+Gould/_/Bach%2B%2528JS%2529%253A%2BTwo%2BPart%2BInvention%2B%25231%2BIn%2BC%252C%2BBWV%2B772</url></track>- <track>...</track>- </toptracks>

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- <environment age="4546">- <datastream datastreamid="0" value="19.0"><tag>heat</tag><tag>temperature</tag></datastream>- <datastream datastreamid="1" value="1364.0"><tag>sound</tag></datastream>- <datastream datastreamid="2" value="194.0"><tag>pollution</tag></datastream>...</environment>

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- <environment age="4546">- <datastream datastreamid="1" value="1364.0"><tag>sound</tag><track><artist mbid="3dfc0a11-0122-4bc4-8474-b67c88c5a4ea">Glenn Gould</artist><name>Bach (JS): Two Part Invention #1 In C, BWV 772</name><mbid/><album mbid="">G.Gould:remastered</album><url>http://www.last.fm/music/Glenn+Gould/</url><date uts="1179943861">23 May 2007, 6:11pm</date></datastream>...</environment>

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This plasticity of the world ... calls your attention simultaneously to the nature of the process as to the fundamental limits of our apprehension of the world and of ourselves......our existence cannot rely on any foundation, but also that our interpretations emanate from our common history of living things and social individuals...The world of the living beings, the logic of self-reference and the whole natural history of circularity must tell us that tolerance and pluralism, a detachment of our own perceptions and values that yield its place to the other, is the true foundation of knowledge and its ending point. Here, actions are better than words.

“Autonomie et Connaissance – Essai sur le Vivant”, Eds. du Seuil, Paris, 1988. (Varela, F., Principles of Biological Autonomy, Elsevier/North-Holland, New York, 1979, 306 pp.)

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Perspective

＋　Open Ecology of Digital Contents

＋　Deployment of prochronistic interface

＋　Fermentative Media

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Chen Han Long Dominique



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+ Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo [Japan Science Promotion Society, Fellow] + NPO Creative Commons Japan, Director + Dividual.jp, co-CEO

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