We focus on dispatch as a kind of condition that is open to an increasing number of alternatives to doing business with humans. Search 'Who's Work is This Really' for how we find ourselves working backwards from compatibility.
Our Upper Name Hierarchy makes room for Marcel Duchamp in the tradition fulfilled by Alan Turing.
Older versions of this page reflect on the various ways this wiki separates method from quantity so that who we are can be considered independently from how we do and share.
Dispatch
By interpreting medium as message generalization of purpose becomes tangible. We exercise tremendous influence over our work by choosing who will select the value of a work of art and who will provide these .jpegs to be so interpreted.
The Surrealists also attached meaning to symbols and then chose to do one thing or another based on the symbols that arose in their automatic writing. In dreams, the symbols may be entities or sequences depending only on the automation of unconscious mechanisms and representation in available consciousness.
A medium can be cast as an interpreter as follows: for each symbol, if the symbol has one meaning, apply that, else if it has another meaning, apply that, and so on. This can be written in modern programming languages pretty much this way.
for each symbol if symbol is "sum" then a+b if symbol is "product" then a*b if symbol is ...
The artist who interprets a medium will in one way or another make decisions in their work based on value to be created later. The artist must give form to a medium, and an art institution is a code that represents these values before the artist creates them.
Interpreters
Viki.wiki makes use of various institutions and leaves room for further institutions to appear later.
*.viki.wiki dispatch to collections of pages through wildcard addressing as configured on Victoria Campbell's digital ocean server.
Welcome Visitors dispatch to biography and catalogue. Each artist in the federation has the opportunity to provide a different interpretation for a unit of work.
Black Flags dispatch to editing operations that create or modify page contents. Symbols like [+] or [x] code for adding or removing story items. Reinterpreting a subset of actions will recreate any version of a page.
Menu of Apps dispatch to a command line terminal that will interpret commands
Federated Wiki is open to any number of plugins. We can only suggest the variety of interpretation that is possible.
The Method plugin dispatches on the first word of each line. Words like SUM and PRODUCT lead to computations applied to data found by the plugin elsewhere.
The Data plugin dispatches thumb events to display information from corresponding columns.
The Radar plugin dispatches on the format of configuration lines. It also dispatches thumb events to orient the display.
The Factory plugin dispatches based on dropped file type to create appropriately typed story items.
Federation
We consider who in the global art trade does what when and who checks the results.
A federated wiki site represents a single art worker who is expected to preserve that domain name as a reference for attribution.
Institutions can configure the complement of plugin versions used to interpret a body of work. Others are free to interpret a work of art differently but may return to a particular source to discover its preferred interpretation.
Evolution favors this approach.
Developers favor this approach.
Distinguish mechanical and cultural interpretation.
Notes
George Dyson 
recounts the realization of Turing's universal machine at the Institute for Advanced Study.
John Walker describes in simple terms how universal computation depends on large, reliable memory.
Ivan Godard describes the central role of dispatching in modern chip design. website