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Methodological Framework
Scenario² undertakes a narrative experiment within a framework that integrates independently proven experimental materials so as to test the hypothesis that co-evolutionary narrative can aesthetically demonstrate levels of machine autonomy.
The materials are integrated from established interactive technologies. First among these is the Centre for Interactive Cinema's (iCinema) landmark Advanced Visualisation and Interaction Environment - AVIE, which enables the engagement of an experimental ascriptive framework. This framework incorporates a matrix of sensing, interpretive and responsive procedures in the conduct of a narrative experiments, including Scenario². Each narrative experiment is designed to dramatize distinct behavioral processes thus probing machine autonomy and the cognitive gap between machine and participant. The design is sufficient to provide agents with minimal perceptive, reasoning and expressive capabilities that allows them to track, deliberate and react to human participants in a scripted setting, with an autonomy and deliberation characteristic of co-evolutionary narrative.
The framework is structured so as to respect autonomous agent intentionality, as opposed to the simulated intentionality of conventional mixed reality. While narrative ascription in participant centred interactivity focuses exclusively on human judgements, co-evolutionary narrative provides for the contribution of deliberated action by machines. This involves providing agents with a number of capacities beyond their rudimentary scripted behaviour: First, the ability to sense the behaviour of participants; second, the facility to represent this behaviour symbolically; and third, the capacity to deliberate on their own behaviour and respond intelligibly according to a scripted course of action.
The machine agents define their autonomy experimentally through their ability to deliberate within a performance context adapted from the experimental film and television work of Samuel Beckett. In this “Beckettian” performance, individual and group autonomy is determined by transpositional spatial behaviour, whereby characters define themselves and each other by reciprocating spatial actions. The transpositional exchange of purposeful behaviour in this the performative context is sufficiently elastic to allow for a scripted expression of autonomy. The context is manipulated experimentally by adjustments to the spatial action and variations to the ratio of human to machine agents. As Scenario² focuses on clustering in the mediation of groups of agents, the experiments in Scenario² examine the relation between groups of machine agents and groups of humans.
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