2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
27. ■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
28. 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
31. 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
35. ‘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
36. “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
37. production
définissent des molécules
la frontière constitutives de la
1. stepped
dynamique
membranes
cellulaire
2. gradual
37
38. production
define the of responses
boarder of constitutive of the
discourse
authorship (social dynamics)
2. gradual
39
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
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
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
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
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
47. TypeTrace ver. 1.0 Process-oriented Word Processor
StandAlonePlayer/Editor [OSX]
48
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
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
50. Playback
Pause Rec
Speed Time Difference Effect
Record
/Stop Play/Pause Font Fullscreen
Time
Slider
51
51. Name Title Time Length
Search Recorded Date
52
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
56. Wiki
&
TT
2008.01.12..... | Dominick Chen
The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism
57
57. • Wiki’s revision
• transparency
• historicity
• attributability
2008.01.12..... | Dominick Chen
The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism
59
58. TypeTrace
miniblog
Nike+iPod
Facebook Vlog
blog
last.fm
Wiki
60
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
64. 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
71. 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
74. - <toptracks user=quot;zastava81quot; type=quot;overallquot;>
- <track>
<artist mbid=quot;7002bf88-1269-4965-a772-
4ba1e7a91eaaquot;>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
75. - <environment age=quot;4546quot;>
- <datastream datastreamid=quot;0quot; value=quot;19.0quot;>
<tag>heat</tag>
<tag>temperature</tag>
</datastream>
- <datastream datastreamid=quot;1quot; value=quot;1364.0quot;>
<tag>sound</tag>
</datastream>
- <datastream datastreamid=quot;2quot; value=quot;194.0quot;>
<tag>pollution</tag>
</datastream>
...
</environment>
2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen
The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism
79
76. - <environment age=quot;4546quot;>
- <datastream datastreamid=quot;1quot; value=quot;1364.0quot;>
<tag>sound</tag>
<track>
<artist mbid=quot;3dfc0a11-0122-4bc4-8474-b67c88c5a4eaquot;>Glenn Gould</artist>
<name>Bach (JS): Two Part Invention #1 In C, BWV 772</name><mbid/>
<album mbid=quot;quot;>G.Gould:remastered</album>
<url>http://www.last.fm/music/Glenn+Gould/</url>
<date uts=quot;1179943861quot;>23 May 2007, 6:11pm</date>
</datastream>
...
</environment>
2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen
The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism
80
77. 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
78. Plasticity / Portability [Creative Commons]
Prochronism [Type Trace]
2008.01.19..... Dominick Chen
The Critical Point of the Commons and Digital Prochronism
82
79. 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
80. 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