::this.turings assembly line .documentation
turing‘s assembly line (web & plato systems)

Turing‘s assembly line is a cross between a gameart/artgame and an elearning (automatic learning) project. It was simultaneously developed for the amazing plato systems (automatic learning, 1960+) and for the web.

As player you are not a user of the universal machine, you are Alan Turing‘s universal machine yourself. Please, sit down and begin to work!

You will receive task after task. You have to decide if you want to execute a task or if you don‘t. Of course you will also encounter some errors among the tasks. No program and no coder is perfect! You may even be confronted with exceptions, forkbombs ... and more.

Will you be fast enough? How many operations are you able to execute per minute? How long can you keep up the assembly line?

Turing created a slave, that works without thinking, without argueing and without any motivational design - the universal machine is just a bookkeeper with pencil and paper. Therefore Turing serialized everything to simple tasks in a line. He mechanized logic thinking to an assembly line job. And today almost everything is based on this universal (bookkeeping) slave from cars and excel sheets to servers, computers, smartphones and AI. But more and more this universal serf or slave is somehow pushing us to the edge and turns us into fun slaves of computers and processes.

The artworks exists in two variants:
1. WebVersion
2. Plato System Version (PLATO SYSTEM is an astonishing system that was built in the 1960s as a Multiplayer-Elearning system with graphical terminals. The founders of PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) invented groundbreaking things like: automatic learning, personal notes, public notes, chats, forums, multiplayer games etc. There is still an instance online in: CYBER1.ORG. You can enter the system with terminal software. Once inside the system you can play “Turing‘s assembly line” in its original version.)


You find both versions (and a description on how to to play it on plato) here: turingsal.and-or.ch>

pictures


Web-Version







PlatoSystem-Version







turing's assembly lane in the collegio gallio, como 2022, controlled by Cardinal Tolomeo - part of the ELO 2022 exhibition.


Events
# bergen 2021: university of bergen, posthuman electronic literature - SLSAeu and ELO 2021, march 4 - 7.
# como 2022: collegio gallio, ELO 2022 exhibition, may 30 - june 1.