Genomats

Computational Monads

Computation is an emergent phenomenon unlike anything we have seen in the history of technical inventions. It is an abstract genetic mechanism driven by a set of internal principles or instructional codes. As such, it is a computational monad, a logical counterpart to Leibniz's idea of a metaphysical monad, that redefines a new plane of immanence as the spectacle of a second order nature transposed onto the cultural universe of humanity that is founded upon the first order nature.

The birth of the Universal Turing Machine (by Alain Turing, 1936) marks the inauguration of the Hyperzoic Era (the artificial life of self-organizing systems) by redefining the projective content of the plane of immanence as information-theoretical in origin. The UTM has brought to the foreground a universe of counterfactual possibilities by showing that those potential states of affairs are inextricably woven into the invisible fabric of reality itself. Its latent ambition is to exfoliate this reality in all its manifestation through the inner workings of the Turing Dimension: a linear sequence of cells that function as the channel through which information is processed to form the digital economy of the Universal Turing Machine.

The starting point of the project is to generate a diagrammatic form of the behavior of the given physical site in Central Park. In this abstract site, the park is described as a network of L-system, each of which could represent a growing flow of particular interests in a future project. At one cross point in the site matrix, it was decided that the abstract machine should run with the combination of all the particular systems.