Generative Works: From Recombinant Poetics to Recombinant Informatics

Seaman has been active in the creation of differing Cyber worlds from the early 90's onward. This paper will cover historical approaches including The World Generator / The Engine of Desire (1996 to present) a generative virtual environment-exploring Recombinant Poetics, The Architecture of Association (with Daniel Howe), Engine of Engines (Howe | Seaman) (2011 - present), the more recent generative Cyber world systems - A China of Many Senses (2011/2012), and The Many Senses Engine (2013 - present), and The Insight Engine (2014) exploring Recombinant Informatics - an explatory approach to bisociational transdisciplinary research. He will discuss his collaboration with John Supko - including the co-leadership of the new Emergence Lab at Duke University in the new Media Arts and Sciences program. Seaman also has long term plans related to an integrated network of focused sensing, dynamic virtual environments, recombinant Informatics, and speed of light computation - The Light-Data Domain, A collaboration with Tuan Vo-Dinh, head of the Duke Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics.