#longform ### **Instant Manifesto** ## 2015 Architects have more to learn today from computer [[Game]] designers and interface makers than from the history of architecture, or from the majority of contemporary 'avant-garde". It is not only that we are moving into an era where people will begin to inhabit and experience algorithmic worlds in a way not at all different than how they experience 'real life', but the very conditions in which new additions to r/l are being produced and organized are now almost completely set in the virtuality of algorithmic worlds. Architects do not make buildings, they make representations of buildings. But what if it is not merely the question of representation anymore? An interface is not a passive medium, like paper. It 'fights back', and thus, algorithmic objects creep back into reality, often unchecked and unseen. There is, thus, a certain ecology of inhabitation of algothmic worlds, one that affects the subsequent inhabitation of the real. Algorithmic worlds are never clean and smooth outcomes of a 'perfect' computation, as computers are never just calculators and machines for simulation. Dealing with infinities and random values is as irrational and creative as it is rational and analytic. I propose an acknowledgement of the autonomy of computation, a realization that computation is in itself medium-specific, with its own laws and unexpected outcomes, with effects that creep back into any reality they are being used to construct. Increasingly, the question becomes how do we experience the virtual, what is it that is actually at play when we explore and utilize interfaces, as visible spectrums of algorithms. A certain algorithmic [[Aesthetics]] appears, which leads to algorithmic politics, and ultimately, ecology. Architect can, thus, adopt a role of explorer of the new algorithmic realities. An explorer is not just a navigator, he is also an inhabitant, a person who spends his time entangled. He knows that there can be no easy relationship with algorithms, that things are about to get messy.