DRIFT:: A Generative Psychogeographical Event We met in Vancouver to test a series of algorithms. As part of the experiment each group was given an object and asked to throw it into the ocean if their pattern led them to a point where they could not progress further.


SUMMARY Our team became immediately entangled in Arthur Erikson's courthouse building for three generations of the algorithm (2nd left, 1st right, 2nd left.), which gave us elevated gardeny views of downtown corridors...

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ANALYSIS When planning the event I'd been drawn to the notion of standardization in the running of the algorithm. My focus was on the idea that part of the exercise was to understand the working of the algorithms themselves (despite their exact configuration being irrelevant). This was meant to explore the functionality of the rules in the experiment....

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