TGarden As an Experiment in Autonomously Producing Culture

In a TGarden responsive media space, people dressed in costumes and sensors move freely to improvise living patterns of image and sound. Both the experience and the production subscribe to notions of autonomy and flexibility. Our question is to what extent ideals consonant with OpenSource, latent in the design of the technology and of the collaborative consortium, also could serve to pattern the social embedding of such play space technologies in ambient economies. In addressing this question, we must come to terms with diverse epistemic cultures, diverse technical and political and generational interests, and the economy of knowledge capital in the intersection of art and technology