GENERATIVE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL Experiment
Saturday 23 November 2002
Gallery Room
Benthuizerstraat 96-B
Rotterdam
Gather at 17.00
"[T]he great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created" - Lewis Mumford
If the city is a database of human culture through the ages than generative psychogeography is the query best suited for weaving unconnected facts into a logical dataset.
This is an example of the .walk software psychogeographers will be running during the experiment .
This experiment is Phase 0 in the eventual construction of the UGPC (Universal Generative Psychogeographical Computer).
// Interactive Generative Psychogeography
// Filename: interact1.walk
// This open source software is produced by
// www.socialfiction.org
//
// T = Time (in minutes)
// E = Exportcode
// C = Counter
E = 3
C = 0
Repeat
{
E = X
1 st street left
2 nd street right
X street left
When 2 programs meet
{
Exchange E
C + 1
}
Coun