Abstract
In this article, the author and founder of the CADRE Media Lab at San José State University, Joel Slayton, discusses the art project, "Entailment Mesh," by Gordon Pask and Paul Pangaro. Pask being an expert in the fields of cybernetics and psychology and Pangaro learned computer science and humanities while studying at MIT. The artwork utilizes a framework for a machine conversational and learning system called DoWhatDo developed by the artists at MIT. Slayton argues that the project can be considered both an art piece and a social software that blurs boundaries between structure and process. The concept of the work focuses on both the theoretical discourse of databases and knowledge engineering. The article discusses the development of the project, the technology it uses, and two conceptual frameworks for understanding the project in a larger context; "Conceptualization of Entailment" & the "Necessity of Inferencing".
Preservation Process
Archived from http://switch.sjsu.edu/archive/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php%3Fartc=53.html. Documentation of the preservation processes used for this collection is available at https://github.com/NickSzydlowski/switch. Metadata for this item was created and augmented by Benjamin Norman, Spring 2022, ART 104.
Recommended Citation
Slayton, Joel
(2002)
"Entailment Mesh: A wireless brainstorming tool facilitated by a server-side knowledge engine,"
SWITCH: Vol. 17:
No.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/switch/vol17/iss1/2