Nonlinearity in the creation process
ABSTRACT for IFASC 2013
by Jens Sievert
In an era marked by the uprising of the digital world and its influence over the analog it’s important to speculate and investigate about the non-linear thought present in the internet and its effects over the activity in the creation process.
Not in terms of a substitution of non-linearity over the linear but more about the interaction of this two worlds, how do we connect them and more important, what do we have to learn with it.
In a sequence of experiments it’s intended to address the contribution of non-linearity in the creative process.
This experiment begun with the writing of some texts relevant to the investigation and in identifying in those texts several concepts translated in keywords to be used. These texts were put on the internet.
During the investigation it came to the conclusion that a physical system was a good way to achieve some results. So it was built a random concept machine that was able to interact with the audience and to lead people to manipulate this mechanism in order to obtain answers.
This installation like machine was a panel constituted by a circle with the identified concepts displayed surrounding this circle. In the limits of the panel there were a set of QR Codes connecting each concept to the original text placed online. So this was a kind of physical machine to the hyperspace.
All these concepts could be connected by the audience through some elastics so that the people could connect and reconnect them and read the texts in the hyperspace.
It was obvious that this was a powerful way of getting new concepts by randomly connecting the existing ones. From these intersections new texts and concepts were created even if the concepts were not obvious to be connected.
So it was created a way of interacting with information in a random and nonlinear method, achieving unexpected results that could not be possible to obtain with a linear thinking process.
This physical machine was in somehow endless with infinite connections possibilities by being adaptable to other keywords to be placed above the existing ones.
In this experiment it was identified that is possible to connect information in a nonlinear way between analogic and the digital world and that a random method of treating information is helpful to get new and unexpected results in a creative process.
