Agonistics

by Warren Sack
http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/Agonistics/RHIZOME_RAW/Interface/agon1.html

The images and actions used metaphorically by political theorists to understand democratic discussion as a game or competition -- "agonistic democracy" -- can be instantiated as interactive, graphical objects and dynamics. Agonistics: A Language Game is a literal instantiation of these metaphors that can played by posting messages to a public, online discussion forum.

Bio

Warren Sack is a software designer/digital artist and media theorist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. His work has been exhibited at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany); the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); the Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff, Canada); SF Camerawork (San Francisco); and, at the artport site of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). In 2004 he was awarded a Rhizome Net Art Commission by Rhizome.org at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. In 2002 the Walker Art Center and the Jerome Foundation awarded an Emerging Artists/Emerging Medium 3: Net-Art Commission to him and artist/designer Sawad Brooks. Warren teaches in the Film & Digital Media Department and the Digital Arts / New Media M.F.A. program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned a B.A. from Yale College and an S.M. and Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory. More about his current work can be found at http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/SocialComputingLab.