Problem-solving: Narratives and Algorithms: A philosophical approach by Herbert Hrachovec. Intro: "We can describe a problem-space as opening up through the absence of an answer and as being held together by the expectation that some answer can be found and decided upon. Notice the crucial distinction between an answer and some answer, i.e. between the general lack of satisfaction that marks a problem before it is clearly articulated and the specific result that only takes shape during the process of problem-solving. Successful problem-solving calls for arriving at some settlement between the two. In what follows I want to elaborate on these remarks, to sharpen the focus on what can pass as a solution to a problem and in particular to locate the concept of an algorithmic procedure in such a context." Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
