Brandon Tay
One or Several Agents: Machinic Animism

The history of divination is rife with examples of human and non-interaction, from Indian Parrot Astrology to Paul the octopus, we have always read the gestures of animals to learn from their silence. Likewise, games as models of government and cognitive tools have also traced a rich genealogy, both fictional and historical. One or Several Agents: Machinic Animism, is a real-time simulation in which different ideological factions depicted as atavistic agents and their pawns, exist in a a symbiotic ecosystem, one in which their interactions create a textual interpretation of their behavior through procedural narrative strategies, giving us an elusive glimpse into the futures they portend,futures that fork from ours due to key changes in the way we regard techne and computing in the past and potential futures.