Ultima Ratio

Abstract

Conflicts from real life and literature are reduced to their logical structures in order to process them in several functional and dysfunctional modes. To do this, a decision-support system from the field of Al has been implemented and modified, which permits those conflicts to be remodeled as pro and contra argumentations. The logical processes are displayed in realtime visualization as moving 3-D diagrams which simultaneously serve as interfaces. In the installation, this animation is projected onto an overhead disk. The images follow the observer’s glimpse by means of a head/eye tracker, whereby the diagrams are distorted in accordance with the observer’s ever-changing perspective. A chorus of computerized voices provides a recitation of the dispute thus generated.