{"id":272,"date":"2005-06-30T09:49:59","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=272"},"modified":"2024-11-20T11:51:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:51:17","slug":"hive-minded-swarm-on-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Hive-Minded Swarm On Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Bruce Sterling&#8217;s Wired <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/sterling\/\">blog<\/a> comes this interesting bit on a collaborative art effort called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artleak.org\/MindedSwarm.html\">The Minded Swarm<\/a>&#8220;. From the press release: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The artists have met for some years in a science fiction reading group, absorbing SF&#8217;s mode of fantastic speculation into their own practice. Assuming the model of a Gestalt Organism (Theodore Sturgeon, More than Human, Vintage, 1998.) where individual capacities merge to create a single distributed intelligence, the artists have enacted a state-change, adopting a communal consciousness (Olaf Stapledon, Starmaker, Wesleyan University Press, 2004 (1937), p. 271.) as a means of artistic production.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> If you&#8217;re in the LA area, the exhibition runs through Sunday, 4 September 2005.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me a little of the early efforts of a European collective called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workspace-unlimited.org\/vwa_flash.html\">Workspace-Unlimited<\/a>. A few years back when they popped up on the radar they were attempting to use the Quake 3 game engine to create a virtual artistic community (it appears they&#8217;ve morphed into something else now perhaps). They got off to a really nice start with the game engine, and the possibilities to do something like a virtual &#8220;hive mind&#8221; project seemed within reach. But as some of us pointed out, they probably ran into licensing issues and the like. It does look like they have something else &#8220;virtual&#8221; going on though. Something to check out when I have a minute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Bruce Sterling&#8217;s Wired blog comes this interesting bit on a collaborative art effort called &#8220;The Minded Swarm&#8220;. From the press release: The artists have met for some years in a science fiction reading group, absorbing SF&#8217;s mode of fantastic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}