The question is if we want to see the techniques of live coding to be
more than something that happens within a specific cultural context
and situation (electronic music on stage).
As far as my research is concerned, I can only state that the notion
of an abstract machine and its pecularities are very much connected
to it forming a relation between process and text. Threfore formal
interaction with a running process is of general interest both in art
and science.
A question that regularly comes up in this context is the role of
language in interaction - the rubic's cube, as you have alluded to
structuralism, comes close to something like a semiotic machine, a
code; other interfaces maybe less. I'd find it interesting to discuss
here in what way live coding (or interactive programming) is tied to
a language/text and how this relates to other "interfaces".
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>but this question does seem to
>deal with something else altogether than
>livecoding...
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>I don't completely agree, quite on the contrary,
>since every software is an abstract machine
>according to my definition.
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>But yeah, if you want a duel, lets take it outside :)
>I'll mail you.
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Received on Tue Jun 06 2006 - 10:54:10 BST