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Latest revision as of 11:24, 9 March 2017
The Poietic Generator is a social network game designed by Olivier Auber in 1986, and developed from 1987 under the label free art thanks to many contributors.
Description
The game takes place within a two-dimensional matrix in the tradition of board games and its principle is similar to both Conway's Game of Life and the surrealists' Exquisite corpse.
However, it differs from these models in several respects. It is not an algorithm like Conway's, but human players who control in real-time the graphic elements of a global matrix, on the basis of one unit per person.
Unlike the exquisite corpse in which there are always hidden parts, here all the players' actions are visible at all times by each of them. Unlike board games, there is no concept of winning or losing, the goal of the game is simply to collectively draw recognizable forms and to observe how we create them together.
The name "Poietic Generator", derived from the concept of autopoiesis in life sciences (Francisco Varela), and of poietic in philosophy of art (Paul Valéry, René Passeron), illustrates the process of self-organization at work in the continuous emergence of the global picture.
Since its inception, the Poietic Generator has been designed as part of a wider action research to create an "Art of Speed".
See also
- Autopoiesis
- Conway's Game of Life
- Doxa
- Game classification
- Game theory
- Net.art
- Poetry
- Poiesis
- Social network game
- Telematic art
External links
- Poietic Generator (official site)
- Poietic Generator @ Wikipedia.org
