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ANALYSIS 4 :: AFTER THE EXPERIMENT (continued)
This issue is being further developed in other psychogeographical events such as Glowlab's Shuffle, which involves the creative opening-out of possibilities to include alternate functions, and Social Fiction's Genetic Generative Psychogeographical Survey that uses the programming concept of the self-writing quine.
These upcoming experiments seem to support the thesis that increasing the sophistication of the algorithm is the next step in algorithmic psychogeography. Such events are taking the work further in this direction than I'd conceived at the time of Drift.
But to return to the point about dynamic activity, after the experiment I was thinking about how the moving pieces in these experiments are people on the ground rather than points in computer space. This is the crossover with drawing tools, and Jeremy Wood & Hugh Pryor's experiments in GPS drawing. I was wierdly struck by the somehow-almost-invisible computational concept of movement and the loop. The people are literally acting as points akin to electronic points that move when the computer creates a trajectory from a set of instructions. It is another instance in which the physical movement of the walkers is the dynamic principle constrained by the design of exceptions. So generative art collapses the space between 'doing' and mapping. GPS drawing also collapses the distinction between the writing of the event and the event itself by mapping human movement in a way that becomes both performative and sculptural.
The next idea I have for a future experiment would be to try to isolate the dynamic movement that runs through both algorithmic psychoderive (as a principle of movement) and programming (as computational function, the movement of the loop). This might be done using marathon tracking devices to tag a set of agents as they engage in a dynamic pattern of activity that has built-in binary responses to obstacles, like a race course or sport. I am investigating these things further.
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