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RICARDO DOMINGUEZ + HYLOZOIC SOIL: KINETIC ARCHITECTURES AND GEOTEXTILES

DIANE LUDIN 18 FEBRUARY 2008
EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER
EMERGENT CRITICALITY IN COMPLEX TURING B-TYPE
ATOMIC SWITCH NETWORKS Philip Beesley practices digital media
art and experimental architecture in
ADAM Z. STIEG / AUDRIUS V. AVIZIENIS / HENRY O. SILLIN / CRISTINA MARTIN-OLMOS Toronto. His work in the last two
/ MASAKAZU AONO / JAMES K. GIMZEWSKI decades has focused on field oriented
distributed sculpture and landscape
Recent advances in the neuromorphic operation of atomic switches as individual synapse-like devices demonstrate the installations. In parallel with
ability to process information with both short-term and long-term memorization in a single two terminal junction. his sculpture practice he teaches
Here it is shown that atomic switches can be self-assembled within a highly interconnected network of silver architecture at the University of
nanowires similar in structure to Turing’s “B-Type unorganized machine”, originally proposed as a randomly connected Waterloo School of Architecture in
network of NAND logic gates. Cambridge, Ontario and is co-director
of Waterloo’s Integrated Centre for
In these experimental embodiments, complex networks of coupled atomic switches exhibit emergent criticality similar Manufacturing, Visualization and Design,
in nature to previously reported electrical activity of biological brains and neuron assemblies. Rapid fluctuations a facility combining high-performance
in electrical conductance display metastability and power law scaling of temporal correlation lengths that are computing, advanced visualization and
attributed to dynamic reorganization of the interconnected electro-ionic network resulting from induced non- digital fabrication.
equilibrium thermodynamic instabilities. These collective properties indicate a potential utility for real time,
multi-input processing of distributed sensory data through reservoir computation.

We propose these highly coupled, nonlinear electronic networks as an implementable hardware-based platform toward
the creation of physically intelligent machines.

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