The Actor model adopts the philosophy that everything is an actor. This is similar to the everything is an object philosophy used by some object-oriented programming languages, but differs in that object-oriented software is typically executed sequentially, while the Actor model is inherently concurrent.
- David Bausola
This then relates to "Everyone is an Artist and Society is a Sculpture"? (Beuys)
- Mary Anne Davis
Yes, that's a good connection. The Actor Model looks at flow, Beuys looked at the spirit.
- David Bausola
Was Beuys standing in a stream of creativity rather than being being a stream of production? His stance was so disliked by the established art businesses - be because he was a maker without a business model - his model was social, not production. Just a thought.
- David Bausola