CodeZebra will be a visually mobile chat environment that will respond elegantly to the movement of ideas, emotions, the mouse or the brain cell. The chat produces visual patterns and sounds. Users can analyze conversations as these unfold over time, flag and connect points of dense debate or interest, or conflict (r and d). Pattern analysis allows an ongoing visual survey of points of intense activity and debate, which can translate into calls for action, new patterns, and response from the moderators, the scientist or artist. Users can impose patterns from reaction/diffusion within nature or other sources onto chat, using organic or scientific measurement to consider human speech and dialogue.

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The design team will unravel navigation strategies, including the relationships between moderators and discussants (ethics committee members/elders),synchronous and asynchronous chat, the generation of images from and to these levels, image forums and focus topics. The software team will suture together off the shelf software with their own inventions of discourse analysis, search engines, browsers, conferencing software, 2D and 3D visualization tools, sound analysis machines, networking software and pattern analysis. We will build the smartest, loveliest, sexist and most reactive chat software ever seen. It will launch on the site in 2001. In addition the chat software will mean that users can:

2) produce reaction and diffusion and other related patterns unique to slices of the chat.

3) have a means of classifying dialogues (voting) or grouping by pre-defined qualities of certain patterns (e.g. ocelot is intense, multi-partied, outgoing; zebra is watchful, unintegrated, skittish); create descriptions of new patterns and vote on these (through naming or qualifying competitions), categorize types of dialogue and understand the affinities of individual and groups of users. Users can then participate according to their reactions (affinities) or diffusions (opposites). The patterns are a data mining source for zcommerce.

4) place external patterns over existing dialogue reorganize the chat and provide a new world view.The site will allow metaphors from chemical, biological, geological and artificial experiences to address social context or conversation.

5) paint patterns over surfaces such as skin, to make 3D environments from existing surfaces.

6) pattern synchronous audio and visual streams using wireless or capabilities for web cams, safaris and zebra cage events. Coordinate the performance and web aspects through the streams and into personal computing devices.

7) create audio and music tracks from the patterns.

8) move debates on and off the screen, enter archives and returns.

9) archive past chat, linking these to other materials in the archive.

How:

There is a software developers discussion in the chat area. Josh Portway of stain.org and Realworld is safari vapour wear leader on the software. Attached to this page is Ocamm's Razor, a discussion with Sara Diamond, codezebra.net; Daniel Joliffe, Digital Earth; Marcelo Walter, Ph.D. Unisinos, Brazil;

These members of the team are joined by Jason Lewis, Arts Alliance; Susan Kennard, Radio 90; Sheelagh Carpendale, Ph.D., University of Calgary; Saul Greenberg, Ph.D., University of Calgary; Andre Ktori, AudioRom; Jon Tonkin, Australia www.johnt.org and www.johnt.org/meniscus; Warren Sacks, MIT; Matt Grenby, Intel; Skawenatti Fragnito, Nation to Nation; Maciej Wisniewski, New York, with others currently under recruitment.

There will be a workshop, generously hosted by the Arts Alliance later this year that will develop a software schematic. We will build it and then all will come to this fabulous site.

See:

Fast hacked prototype on this page.

The Software Road Movie, a map of precarious ideas generated by Diamond and Portway during an equally challenging desert road trip.

If you are interesting in sharewaring please contact sara@codezebra.net

Ocamm's Razor