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Bamboo Garden Links

The CLS is affiliated with a GBG workshop in Seattle called the Bamboo Garden (after the hermitage where Joseph Knecht studied the I Ching in The Glass Bead Game, the novel). Since the GBG is in some sense a Platonic ideal to which we can never quite attain, each of us in the Bamboo Garden has our own version/vision of the Game.

• Karl Erickson is an occasional member of the Bamboo Garden. At his home page, idioverse, you can see much glassbeadgameryish stuff. Eventually he plans to put up the first part of his GBG variant, MemeStruck, geometrical modelling software that allows semantic tags, thereby forming interactive sculptures out of information.
• Ron Hale-Evans is a founding member of the Bamboo Garden and the founder of the Center for Ludic Synergy. His GBG is called Kennexions. Ron has a personal home page too.
• Mark Line, another founding Bamboo Gardener, has a page devoted to his Waldzell Institute. You can find out about his Waldzell gbg here, read archives of GBG-List, and even join the list if you're a fanatical GBGer.
• Gail Sullivan is a founding member of the Bamboo Garden. Her "Glass Bead Game Central" is the single best place to find out about Hesse's Glasperlenspiel on the Web. It includes a detailed explanation of her own "Bliss-Member" gbg as well as an introduction to several other gameforms, including those of other members of the Bamboo Garden. (Gail's page is down as of this writing, 23 September 1999. Gail is presently very active in Y2K preparations for her area. We hope that come the New Year, she will have more time to devote to the GBG.)

COMING SOON: Links to the homepages of CLS members.

Other GBG Links

• Magister-L ... The original Glass Bead Game mailing list. Actually devoted to the intersection of games and spirituality in general, but discussion usually centers around the GBG.

Related

• The Elephant's Memory ... A glyphic constructed language similar to Blissymbolics/Semantography, (which latter is the basis for Kennexions's glyphic conlang). Not much here, but the glyphs are extraordinarily beautiful. Definitely worth a look.
• Notational Engineering Laboratory ... These folks think it's all in the notation. Haven't seen a link to them on any other GBG page, but the material here is quite germane.

Center for Ludic Synergy home

Maintainer: Ron Hale-Evans, rwhe@apocalypse.org

Page last updated 6 April 2004.