Phydeau​.org, online since 14 August 1998, was intended as a gathering space for people to meet, challenge, and conspire as a creative collective. Since that time it has shifted focus so that it mainly hosts my own projects.

When I put this site up, I used the turgid description “Phy-d’eau is conceptual fluid for amorphously thinking toward unfamiliar living.” The point was to have a spot without rigid boundaries in terms of the sort of content it presented–so long as that content explored or helped explore the unfamiliar. Over the years Phy-d’eau occasionally looked more like the traditional weblog concept: commentary and links to other sites. These days, it mostly houses infrequent selections of my writing and other creative endeavours.

Practically since its inception, Phy-d’eau hosted a wiki–using the medium as a way to experiment with online creative collaboration. The most recent wiki incarnation was the Idea Toy Wiki, which was devoted to exploring thinking activities. Namely, to creating, collecting, publishing, taxonomizing, and discussing thinking organisms. I’m developing a collection of work written just to provoke thinking without a defined end, thinking for the sake of thinking, insight, and awareness. The wiki is gone but some of the content is still available and I’ll continue updating it on Phy-d’eau.

The Phy-d’eau ISSN is 1529–2738. If you’re interested in the focus of this site, please contact me so that I may consider your work for publication.

My posts may be identified by my name, Joshua Chalifour, others by other peoples’ names. Other sites I write on include my IT and current events issues blog, conservation of public memory project, and experimental music ensemble (more information at my stream aggregator or Google+). Enjoy.