Patterns and Gestures

Most humans already know how to work with responsive systems – how a room's acoustics shape your voice, how your walking rhythm adjusts to different surfaces, how small changes in timing can shift a conversation. These same patterns of mutual responsiveness operate similarly in technological systems, creating spaces where technologies respond rather than dictate.

We're anarchiving two approaches to the same idea: technology as invitation, not imposition...

Pattern Thinking Across Domains: Alex McLean and collaborators make generative processes visible and manipulable, from weaving to live coding. Feeling the system's tendencies without predicting its outputs, exploring how transparent rules preserve creative surprise, how minimal operations generate emergent worlds.

https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/pattern_thinking/

Technologies of Interbeing: Two decades before today's XR/VR boom, FoAM created immersive systems that responded to unconscious gestures – breathing, touching, walking – turning presence into collective resource. These early experiments reimagined technology as conduit for experiencing elemental interdependence.

https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/technologies_of_interbeing/

Both approaches reveal how sensing and shaping are the same process. When you slow down to notice the patterns you're already making, you discover you're already participating in systems others can enter and transform.