Project: Respond to read­ings about antic­i­pa­tion, par­tic­u­larly as it may be used for communication.

Theory: I was par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in two def­i­n­i­tions of antic­i­pa­tion by Mihai Nadin:

Anticipation is an expres­sion of the con­nect­ed­ness of the world, in par­tic­u­lar of quan­tum non-locality.

Anticipation is an attrac­tor within dynamic systems.

With con­nect­ed­ness and attrac­tion as my two main themes, I set about cre­at­ing a sys­tem whose ele­ments would not just react to, but act in con­cert with the user’s input. Specifically, the idea is to use the ele­ment of antic­i­pa­tion (instead of words) to com­mu­ni­cate instruc­tion about how to inter­act and trig­ger events within the system.

Medium: This is my first project done using Processing. I won’t say any­thing more about the inter­face -- just try it out and leave a com­ment. Was it successful?

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