the timboucher experience

It’s more a conceptual sketch as opposed to an actual screenshot. And forgive me if I take some fast and loose liberties with current computer concepts in an effort to push through into something greater.

Okay, let’s start with these.

These, everybody knows, are screenshots. But what are they really? They are a historical record of a moment in time. They are a snapshot depiction, ultimately, of a mental and emotional state brought to flickering life on a computer screen.

A friend and I discussed at great length a year or two ago a concept for a FireFox plugin or a fork in the code which centered around capturing and sharing these sorts of psychoinformational workspaces. What that conversation ultimately points toward is the ability to holographically store and transmit perceptual spaces.

But let’s dial back to the Year 2009 for a moment, and reapply the metaphor of reference points. As I’ve talked a great deal about on this website, one of the most powerful universal communications techniques you can use on the web is the chaining together of reference points. You can do this sequentially, in the form of a narrative, or you can have them work associatively as an interlinking network or “cloud” of associated keywords, concepts and imagery. I’ve experimented with both techniques at great length.

So let’s take each of our “saved game points”, our emotional snapshots of whatever we happened to be experiencing through our browser window at a particular moment in time, and let’s say that each one is a reference point. In this case, that reference point is fixed to a URL on the web. Conceivably anyone with the appropriate technology could log-in to that URL and see basically the same content. Whether they understand, how they interpret or what they do next is a whole other matter outside the scope of our current discussion.

The point is, we could do something like this if we had the software built to accomodate it: pick a handful of reference points, whether they are videos, photos, keywords, geographic locations, etc and set them up as filters for all the information available on the internet. Using simple controls like, for example, volume knobs, we could then use those reference point filters to “tune” into other information on the web. I could turn the volume up on a Steely Dan video, and turn the visuals up on a special about aliens & 2012, and throw in a handful of references to news and scientific events, narratives and storylines which I happen to be following, and the Mandala OS interface would return what would amount to a divinatory experiential tuning-in of whatever frequency of information we desire.

A really rough conceptual screen shot to illustrate:

In this case, I’ve used a kaleidoscopic image of berries to represent the changing mandala-like nature of the multidimensional transmodal synaesthetic perceptual information streams “tuning” the “knobs” allows. You would then, of course, not only be able to transmit a collection of reference points to someone as a FireFox workspace, but you would also be able to send along the metadata of volumes and setting for your reference point cloud (your custom personal memetic noodelic multiplex) so that they could reproduce the experiential space with whatever their technology set-up allows.

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