NEST – Network Examination of Serendipitous Transfer.

The atavistic game of 'wireless phone' (chinese whispers to the Anglo-Saxons), try as communication channels unclear cause an involuntary conversion of the transmitted information, which can lead to sensational discoveries. Data and algorithms applied to this pattern is reflected in NEST – Network Examination of Serendipitous Transfer , a freely downloadable software for Windows and Linux that handles audio data through a progressive quality degradation induced by a gradual corruption of data. All this accomplished with the same end of the game above, or the generation of possible misinterpretations that can germinate new meanings and associations of meaning. A three-dimensional visualization displays the transformations undergone by the audio files through their passage in a defined circle of people. Emphasizing the low-tech aspect of the thing, dedicated to slow connections rather than broadband ones, the authors define a collaborative system that draws from the threads of the chaos the lifeblood to come up with new ideas, while protecting the playability of the process and using the error propagation and the potential unreliability of digital systems for ideational interpretations.