Index.training
| Chaski (Saskia Knowles) | 2024 |
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Description
A knowledge mapping tool for interaction with the Cybernetics Library collection, exploring the index as a creative infrastructure for mapping knowledge and associative relationships within information.
Using NLP to map textual data spatially, the system generates unique layouts of text on the page, where each index entry's position is determined by its semantic proximity to others in the dataset as determined by an approximate nearest neighbors algorithm, forming a multiply-determined interactive visual topology.
The corpus for this instance of the project is comprised of the indexes of 3 books selected by the artist from the Cybernetics Library’s Uncomputable collection:
- Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media⸻Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
- Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media⸻Shannon Christine Mattern
- The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture⸻Mark C. Taylor