Limited Fork birth page
Limited Fork Theory is A Theory of Everything that not only includes, but also appreciates imagination, the fruitfulness of dead ends, possibilities of error, the usefulness of failure, the beauty of the many configurations of the box the limited fork comes out of and goes into, forking, bifurcating, and investigating all the way. Many paths to many worlds: one limited fork. Limited Fork Theory offers meaningful and enjoyable ways, often odd and unexpected ways --discovers ways-- to connect anything, everything, no matter how briefly. Works best with growth and transformative situations. Experiments with connection across scale and boundary. This video chapter book forks up details about the birth, as much as can be known, in
a movie theater, of a simple and limited tool that can reconfigure perception. Implications of applied Limited Fork Poetics led to a paradigm shift in poetry, and from there led to much more generalized acts of thinking, configuring, playing, responding, making, creating, perceiving, framing, etc. across boundaries. Limited Fork assumes connectedness, assumes stuff is connectable; there are more ways to put together a puzzle than the picture on the box indicates.
Go ahead, play with the fork and fork away!
This approach to connecting and attempting to understand connections of anything on any scale in any location came into being under simple non-scholarly circumstances, but affects everything, and constructs powerful flexible learning spacesand experiences. This video chapter book reveals some of why it's useful and good to fork things up! Limited Fork is food for thought and a way to serve it. Alternative and warped fractal mapping of infinite path systems that connect anything, everything. From these connections come poams: products of acts of making (any making by any makers), all creative and possible. Limited Fork is what happened when forkergirl realized that poetry IS a dynamic, complex system with its own rules and principles, instead of looking for a way to apply tenets of complex systems in theoretical science to what those tenets exclude. Those tenets and everything else are imperfect (limited) tines of the limited fork.
LIMITED FORK THEORY
video chapter book
The history of Limited Fork
from its birth as Limited Fork Poetics
through the fork's acquisition of teeth
during Limited Fork's first six months.
Story told in 13 tines (or chapters)
each designed to offer small insights
into the possibilities that emerge from
using a tool that stimlates growth
by supporting interactions across scale,
location, form, time, dimension, reality,
state, sensory mode.
Any offspring
of a Limited Fork interaction set
(usually also a collaboration set)
is a POAM: Product Of Act[s] of Making.
TINE 1:
nothing profound
(eating popcorn at the Quality 16 cinema
on Jackson Road on a Saturday night)
TINE 2:
a moment in which the structure holds
TINE 3:
limited fork's dynamic page system
(check out Shannon Tamsin's 3D poetry, the source of this image © Shannon Tamsin: all rights reserved)
TINE 4:
a necessary fork & an understanding
of page with teacup
TINE 5:
Limited Fork Theory Paternity Test
(movie relase dates for October 2004)
TINE 6:
Daily Limited Fork Use with a Tour
of the Forked Up World
TINE 7:
shadows, reflections, interactions
(Shadows, Boxes, Forks, and POAMs:
Thylias Moss interviewed by Richard Siken)
TINE 8:
Limited Fork Poetics
& the exquisite failure of poetry
(The Raggedness of Interacting Boundaries:
Dan Shapiro interviews Thylias Moss)
TINE 9:
never lose your limited fork
(a short history of the fork
and dining with dignity [modified --limited-- forks
for a range of human adjusted normalities and curiosities])
TINE 10:
limited fork hand extender prosthetic model
TINE 11:
only a model
(Barrette by Spoonman Creations)
TINE 12:
nervous system fork & the galactic octopus
My Galactic Octopus
was screened at the Ventutous Vanguard Film Festival
TINE 13:
the irregular composition of smooth
See, interact with, and get nets --flat mappings-- of polyhedra (solids: 3D basic shapes that gave us pyramids, obelisks diamonds --blood, Kimberley Process, synthetic, diamond nanotubes, & others-- & other crystals HEREand here: the irregular compostion of ideas & objects: essential raggedness)
Limited Fork is the study of interacting systems
