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V. Bühlmann, M. Roman:
"Introduction Lecture + Guest Talk two: Miro Roman";
Talk: ATTP Guest Talk Series, ATTP, TU Wien; 2016-12-09.

A PLAY OF BOOKS - COMPUTATIONAL OBJECTS IN A WORLD OF DATA.
WHAT IF BOOKS HAD FACES? HOW WOULD THEY BEHAVE?

We are beyond representation; our abstract objects are symbolic; figures, fugues, faces, masks, atoms, elements, characters, avatars, indexes. It is about infusing, narrating, doping, context, information and masterful articulations. Concepts become spectrums; they live like the memory or traces of things that have been; they are not documents - they are animate. They don´t have individual faces - they define zones of probability. It is a multiplicity of ciphering that makes them possible in every sense and direction. Examples can be found all around our world. Brands inhabit symbolical spaces of myths; simulacra are expressing a di erent environment populated by differences which are not copies of a model. They don´t merely represent, they have lives of their own. Mathematics, especially algebra, does not emphasize representation but rather the symbolization of abstract concepts. It is not natural, but a part of a specific nature. Programing languages show us a nature different from natural languages.

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_266110.pdf