------- / Vacuum Virtual Machine
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|-- Data sheet
| `-- 2008, Software art installation
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|-- Description
| `-- The image of a universe composed of networks of vibrating strings or
| filaments is one of the areas of research in theoretical physics
| today. When I started working on a scenario of computational behavior
| based on recent developments in techniques for synthesis of artificial
| life, I found a number of concepts related to some of these physical
| theories, specially those trying to describe the universe as a fluid
| network of strings. Theoretical physics, genetics, a-life, among other
| fields served as a starting point to develop the abstract device that
| would eventually become Vacuum Virtual Machine. The term "virtual
| machine", in computing, refers to a software which simulates the
| operation of a physical computer, even if it has never been built. VVM
| shows its internal mechanism of computing: a network that self-maps
| the internal structure of the program. As a result operates in a
| non-linear and emergent manner. The virtual machine comes to exist
| based on the "rhizomatic" code that configures the network structure,
| afterwards transformed into a sequential code and thus understood by a
| real computer. Operates grounded on three principles, inspired on the
| synthesis of artificial life:
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| 1) the configuration of the interconnections (called "intrinsic
| information"),
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| 2) the emergence of various substructures or clusters (the
| "partitioning" of the network or "emergence of membranes"),
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| 3) the re-configuration process (the "metabolism" of the system)
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| Thus, the virtual machine constantly generates new codes to modify
| itself, and even modify the position and viewpoint of the observer in
| relation to the visualized network. This concepts explore a profound
| link between different knowledge areas, that could be understood
| through some highly abstract processes.
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