Double Cross Playing Diamonds

Rudolf Kaehr, ThinkArt Lab Glasgow

Abstract

Understanding interactivity in/between bigraphs and diamonds

Grammatologically, the Western notational system is not offering space in itself to place sameness and otherness necessary to realize interaction/ality. Alphabetism is not prepared to challenge the dynamics of interaction directly.

The Chinese writing system in its scriptural structuration, is able to place complex differences into itself, necessary for the development and design of formal systems and programming languages of interaction.

The challenge of interactionality to Western thinking, modeling and design interactivity has to be confronted with the decline of the scientific power of alpha-numeric notational systems as media of living in a complex world.

The challenge I see for media artists is not only to develop interactional media constellations but to intervene between the structures and dynamics of interactional systems as they are forced on us by international corporations, governments, military and academia.