Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:12:16 PST Reply-To: Return-Path: Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: (jrypbzr lrne bs ebbfgre -- tbbqolr tbqqnz zbaxrl) To: (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0033] THESIS: Personality Constructs Within Cyberspace Keywords: surfpunk, liquid architecture, personality constructs * | I am HE who threads the EYE of the WOK. | | Subscribe me to this THING. | | -- Dan Puckett |_________________________________________ GLICK blurbed a couple of issues back. I asked him more about his work, and here's what he says. --strick ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Spatialization of Information: Personality Constructs Within Cyberspace" Architectural Thesis Topic - Chris Smaglick Georgia Institute of Technology - College of Architecture Masters of Architecture Program - January 18, 1992 -- Updated/Modified daily based on neural baud rate -- -- Responses & additional sources/contacts appreciated -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My intitial consideration of thesis topic began to focus on the process of architectural design as influenced by the tools of the architect. Investigation into the historical use of pictorial methods and descriptive geometry marked distinct revolutions in how the architect functioned and what the profession required of him. With the fairly recent advent of the computer and the progression beyond an industrial based society to and "information based society", the architect's responsibilities and tools will again evolve through another radical shift. The main focus of this thesis will delve into the topic of Cyberspace and the architects ability to design and formulate the building of a "liquid architecture", or a building form within the futuristic construct of a digital space. The process of design within Cyberspace will require the use of new tools and the formulation of a new breed of spatial creation and interaction. The concept of Cyberspace originated from several science-fiction books by William Gibson, in which a futuristic society was protrayed containing digitally stored memories (personality constructs), digital silicon implants, AI's (Artificial Intelligence), cowboys (those who jack into and manipulate data within cyberspace), and a reconstituted physical urban landscape based on these variations/extensions of contempoary society. The extreme electronic dependence of the physical world begins to blur the distinction between real space and the virtual space within the computer. As defined by Gibsonian logic, cyberspace is a temporal organization and formalization of information. By creation of a digitally-physical space based on specific information attributes, the manipulation, understanding and communication of the information becomes the landscape of cyberspace. The discourse of this thesis initiates in a definition of "real" space and its attributes, and correlates between the physical "real" space and the spatialization of information. In "jacking-in" to cyberspace, one would be surrounded by the system matrix (communication transit network). The need for individual identity within cyberspace, that of simple recognition or a spatial address, becomes the outlet of the design process. The information for structuring an individual space is interpolated from the specific individual. By categorizing and analyzing personal attributes, one can assemble the spatial equivalent of that personality. Furthermore, the relation and organization of a colony of personal "cells" begins to create interrelations between and within each cell as intrinsic and extrinsic fluxuations of the base personality constructs. (The use of the phrase "personality construct" differs from that as discussed in Gibsons Neuromancer by meaning a spatially structured personality.) ) The initial analytical stage requires the documentation and evaluation of personality traits, sufficient enough to establish a personality profile of an individual. These personality traits will then be formally related to specific spatial qualities corresponding spatial qualities portraying each trait (ie. introvert, extrovert - interior spatial focus, exterior spatial focus). The process of translation relies on a specific algorithm capable of analyzing each personality trait and their relation/interrelation to spatial formations. After assembling the personality construct the algoithm will construct a static three-dimensional model of and for the individual. Modulation/ and morphing of these spaces would be incorporated through variations in personality throughout time, proximity and relation to surrounding constructs, and placement - "address" within the cyberspace matrix. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Catch you in the matrix, GLICK Christopher Richard Smaglick (GLICK) - Architecture Grad - "Jacked-in" Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt1420c Internet: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states, spin surf or spin punk. 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