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Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916 | Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916 | ||
photographer unknown | photographer unknown | ||
"I took this course because I liked the name of it. The idea of data, flowing, unobstructed, to my own designs. It was a nice idea for me. I didn't even bother to think of what that data might be ..." | "I took this course because I liked the name of it. The idea of data, flowing, unobstructed, to my own designs. It was a nice idea for me. I didn't even bother to think of what that data might be ..." | ||
==My Project== | ==My Project== | ||
===background=== | ===background=== | ||
Immediately after learning the basics of how Pure Data works I was slightly worried because it seemed that the things which I was interested in, were not the things that Pure Data was typically used for. I shared these thoughts with someone, saying: | |||
"I just don't think I'm using Pure Data in the right way," | |||
to which they said: | |||
"There is no right way to use it ... it doesn't even care what it's being used for ... how can it know? Pure Data can be used for anything." | |||
This was reassuring for me. | |||
From the very beginning I wanted to use PD to perform some kind of human function, to reveal some form of judgement or thought process which would speak about its own inability to do so. And so I wanted to create some kind of patch that would interest itself in the nature of computer programming, while also displaying some level of critical self awareness. | From the very beginning I wanted to use PD to perform some kind of human function, to reveal some form of judgement or thought process which would speak about its own inability to do so. And so I wanted to create some kind of patch that would interest itself in the nature of computer programming, while also displaying some level of critical self awareness. | ||