VideoVortex: Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism

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The Critical Point of the Commons and DigitalProchronism + Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the Chen Han Long Dominique University of Tokyo [Japan Science Promotion Society, Fellow] + NPO Creative Commons Japan, Director + Dividual.jp, co-CEO 2

Background ■ NTT ICC HIVE Open Source initiative on a Media Art Archive → Open AudioVisual Archive: Design Implementation Deployment ■ NPO Creative Commons Japan → Promotion of Open Contents in the Net society ■ Research on extending the notion of Openness Designing data plasticity and prochronism → Theory into practice: TypeTrace (dividual) 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 3

Participation as transparent, natural process: Plasticity / Portability [Creative Commons] Prochronism [Type Trace] → Autonomy of work | Structural Coupling of Author - Spectator (participant) → redeﬁnition of authorship / commons 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 4

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stormstill photo: (Flickr) 17

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■2007 Exposure of ’Excessive Inertia’ Birth of Meta-platform Critical Point of classical UGC ■2008 Explosion of Open Contents Ubiquitous platform of data creation [iPhone/DS] Evaluation of Process-driven data 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 27

Massiveness of Tools production and publishing united proliferation of open contents Recursive stratiﬁcation of Web API meta-platform (FB/HI5-->Slide/RockYou) War over Openness Facebook/OpenSocial 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 28

BY: AZUMA sm1085336 http://creazuma.14.dtiblog.com/ | First major CC’d content on Nicovideo: +20,000 play | +90,000 comments | Algorithm (VOCALOID)+ Library (Voice) UGC Song +UGM Nicovideo | MassiveMultiuserOnline Creativity 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 31

‘Comments’ becoming constituents of the original work. + affecting both authorship and spectatorship + coupling the two parties as a ‘communal author’ + from ‘Dialogue’ to ‘Symlogue’ + narrative control shared + time-process nurtures the content (fermentative) 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 35

“Autonomie et Connaissance – Essai sur le Vivant”, Eds. du Seuil, Paris, 1988. (Varela, F., Principles of Biological Autonomy, Elsevier/North-Holland, New York, 1979, 306 pp.) 36

production définissent des molécules la frontière constitutives de la 1. stepped dynamique membranes cellulaire 2. gradual 37

production define the of responses boarder of constitutive of the discourse authorship (social dynamics) 2. gradual 39

M.C.Escher, “Drawing Hands”, 1948, Lithograph Justin Foote, The Magic of M. C. Escher. (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-6720-0) [Wikimedia Commons] 40

Hypercycle structure. Ii = RNA matrices, Ei = replication enzymes (i = 1,2,...,n) in Eigen M. and P. Schuster. The Hypercycle: A principle of natural self-organization, Springer, Berlin, 1979 41

Hypercyclic Operational Closure of Digital Contents. Vi = “Works”, Di = Derivative Works (i = 1,2,...,n) D1 V1 Dn D2 Vn V2 Operational Closure (Extended Authorship) V4 V3 D3 D4 42

We will call an autonomous system ‘operationally closed’ when its organization is caraterized by processes that: a) are recursively dependent one to another for the generation and realization of the processes themselves, and, b) are constitutive of the system as a recognizable unity in a space (domain) where the processes exist 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 43

Heteronomous Autonomous system (von Neumann) system (Wiener) Fundamental logics of operation correspondence coherence Type of organization input/output, operational closure, transfer function own behaviour Mode of interaction world given by instructions an emerging world and of reprensetations of signiﬁcations 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 44

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TypeTrace ver. 1.0 Process-oriented Word Processor StandAlonePlayer/Editor [OSX] 48

‣ ■ Current problem in designing Digital Commons a) separation between function (FLOSS) and expression (FreeCulture OSS model production scheme of expressive works that are autonomous, self-referential and stochastic process-driven. b) absence of evaluation criteria for dynamic time-based process of data: we are still assuming at a ‘end product’ level. end product evaluation tends to be biased. more transparent and just evaluation based on the historicity of generation 2008.01.12..... | Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 49

• Process-based data • CVS/SVN (software dev.) [function] • Wiki / GDocs (content dev.) [function] • TT (personal writing) [expression] 2008.01.12..... | Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 50

Playback Pause Rec Speed Time Difference Effect Record /Stop Play/Pause Font Fullscreen Time Slider 51

Name Title Time Length Search Recorded Date 52

Chaillot 2007.01 53

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Exhibition in Prague: CIANTI Media Art Center 55

Creating access to the Micro-creativity Recording Lifelog of the Work Database that evolves synchronously to the human existence Evaluation of process as a culture Digital materialism 2008.01.12..... | Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 56

Wiki & TT 2008.01.12..... | Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 57

• Wiki’s revision • transparency • historicity • attributability 2008.01.12..... | Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 59

TypeTrace miniblog Nike+iPod Facebook Vlog blog last.fm Wiki 60

Thesis on Prochronism #47 | On Prochronism and its Urban Application #48 ……1 Series: Netgerechtigkeit: Rache der Daten 1 Prochronist Manifestation #49 ……2 Series: Netgerechtigkeit: Rache der Daten 2 Territoriality of Expression, Its Complementarity of Life and Death #40-41-42-43 | Architecture Archive 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 62

What is the Umwelt of Digital Contents Meta POV of Lessig Architecture Code Law Market Norm What is the vital information of data micro metadata level plasticity (license / interface) prochronism (embryology) derivative chain 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 66

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“...produce arguments which will convince me that this objects is the remains of a living thing. “ symmetry? 68

“...produce arguments which will convince me that this objects is the remains of a living thing. “ serial (ontogenetic) homology / 69

“...produce arguments which will convince me that this objects is the remains of a living thing. “ phylogenetic homology / 70

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Elements constitutive of Data Prochronism [ontogenetic homology]: vertical tracking of embryological process reenatability of immanent recursive patterns [phylogenetic homology]: horizontal tracking of derivative works linking different versions with common set of metadata 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 75

some contemporary connections 76

some contemporary connections 77

- <toptracks user=\"zastava81\" type=\"overall\"> - <track> <artist mbid=\"7002bf88-1269-4965-a772- 4ba1e7a91eaa\">Glenn Gould</artist> <name>Bach (JS): Two Part Invention #1 In C, BWV 772</name><mbid/> <playcount>444</playcount> <rank>1</rank> - <url>http://www.last.fm/music/Glenn+Gould/_/ Bach%2B%2528JS%2529%253A%2BTwo%2BPart%2BI nvention%2B%25231%2BIn%2BC%252C%2BBWV%2B772</url> </track> - <track>...</track> - </toptracks> 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 78

- <environment age=\"4546\"> - <datastream datastreamid=\"0\" value=\"19.0\"> <tag>heat</tag> <tag>temperature</tag> </datastream> - <datastream datastreamid=\"1\" value=\"1364.0\"> <tag>sound</tag> </datastream> - <datastream datastreamid=\"2\" value=\"194.0\"> <tag>pollution</tag> </datastream> ... </environment> 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 79

- <environment age=\"4546\"> - <datastream datastreamid=\"1\" value=\"1364.0\"> <tag>sound</tag> <track> <artist mbid=\"3dfc0a11-0122-4bc4-8474-b67c88c5a4ea\">Glenn Gould</artist> <name>Bach (JS): Two Part Invention #1 In C, BWV 772</name><mbid/> <album mbid=\"\">G.Gould:remastered</album> <url>http://www.last.fm/music/Glenn+Gould/</url> <date uts=\"1179943861\">23 May 2007, 6:11pm</date> </datastream> ... </environment> 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 80

This plasticity of the world ... calls your attention simultaneously to the nature of the process as to the fundamental limits of our apprehension of the world and of ourselves... ...our existence cannot rely on any foundation, but also that our interpretations emanate from our common history of living things and social individuals... The world of the living beings, the logic of self-reference and the whole natural history of circularity must tell us that tolerance and pluralism, a detachment of our own perceptions and values that yield its place to the other, is the true foundation of knowledge and its ending point. Here, actions are better than words. “Autonomie et Connaissance – Essai sur le Vivant”, Eds. du Seuil, Paris, 1988. (Varela, F., Principles of Biological Autonomy, Elsevier/North-Holland, New York, 1979, 306 pp.) 81

Plasticity / Portability [Creative Commons] Prochronism [Type Trace] 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 82

Perspective Open Ecology of Digital Contents Deployment of prochronistic interface Fermentative Media 2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism 83

dominick@dividual.jp dividual.jp 2008.01.19..... | Dominick Chen dominick@creativecommons.jp The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism creativecommons.jp + Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the Chen Han Long Dominique University of Tokyo [Japan Science Promotion Society, Fellow] + NPO Creative Commons Japan, Director + Dividual.jp, co-CEO 84

VideoVortex: Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism

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