The Turk
A reminder to myself: before the advent of Deep Blue and the leveraging of chess code, there was The Turk, purportedly a chess-playing automaton, but in fact a clever hoax.
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A reminder to myself: before the advent of Deep Blue and the leveraging of chess code, there was The Turk, purportedly a chess-playing automaton, but in fact a clever hoax.
The reference is from George Lucas' epic 1971 movie, THX 1138, in which a state-controlled intensification of communication processes manages every facet of daily life in a futuristic society, regulating the flux of all human subjects in work, leisure and love.
Though the Department exists in homage to Lucas’ vision, our consideration of biological flow seeks to reinvigorate the agency of the (in)human subject in its negotiations with economic and political structures both material and immaterial.
www.departmentofbiologicalflow.net
December 11th, 2009
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