New Media : online internet game : Poietic Generator from 1987 - ongoing

POIETIC GENERATOR

http://poietic-generator.net/?page_id=31

http://live.poietic-generator.net
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What is it?

Art & Science for all!
The Poietic Generator is a free social network game designed in order to study crowd phenomena such as the ones happening in commercial social networks sites, various online communities, financial markets, as well as in everyday conversations.
The game may be envisioned as a 100% « Game of Life », that is to say a cellular automata where every single cell is manipulated by a single human being. It allows everybody (10, 100, 1000 or more people, all together), regardless of his/her language, culture and educational background, to participate in retime (al with a PC or mobile device) in the process of self-organization at work in the continuous emergence of a global picture.
The goal of the Poietic Generator is to give to citizen scientists a direct observation and a better understanding of crowd phenomena (self-organization, temporal behaviours, panic, etc.), as well as providing data to scientists in order to challenge various theories which may predict some global behaviours and dynamics.
The Poietic Generator is known as one of the historical works of digital art, interactive art, generative art and net.art. The project has been launched a long time ago (1986) by Olivier Auber at a time when the technology did not allow massive experiments. Nevertheless, small scale sessions performed over the web or experimental networks with various online communities have provided a good proof of concept.
Time has come to launch some bigger scale experiments with the help of citizen scientists from all over the world!