Collective Algorithms
What forms of agency emerge when computational procedures become visible, tangible, and open to collective interpretation and modification?
Collective Algorithms explores algorithms through physical actions and collaborative exercises.
Participants work with instructions, drawing, gestures, repetition, and simple rules. Computational processes become visible as sequences of decisions that people can perform and observe.
A rule can produce different outcomes depending on how someone interprets it. Repetition can create unexpected patterns. Participants can change instructions and see how those changes affect the larger system.
The workshop gradually moves toward authorship. Participants construct, modify, and perform their own algorithms.
The project connects computational literacy with embodiment and collective experimentation. It gives participants direct experience with the decisions that structure an algorithm and with the possibility of changing those decisions.
Collaboration
Developed collaboratively with Ashton Reeder, Helena Cobo, Jing Yi, and Reese Chang.
