Shannon's Information Increased
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2012 -- 5x4x4
My entry for the USEA2012 alternative show coincident with ISEA2012
in Albuquerque was a proposal to compress Claude Shannon's original
Information Theory paper in order to increase its entropy, and thus
Information Content. The proposal was accepted but not implemented
in time for the event so I took it upon myself to execute it as
seen here...
This is a reaction to pretty much everyone and their brother tossing the terms Information Theory and Entropy around as if they knew what they were talking about. I found a particularly interesting usage in the New Museum's Ghosts in the Machine catalog from a (1960's?) article by Abraham Moles, Art and Cybernetics in the Supermarket, which contained a number of schematic systems for creating and analyzing art. Each schematic contained a black box labled "Computer Program", or "The Algorithm", or "Critical Examination of Signals", and/or etc. The text mentioned that one could use Information Theory to implement these functions... Yeah, well, sure. Why not?
So here's my alternative explanation which may or not explain: IT.
And further, I tend to believe that this sort of misreading lead to Conceptual Art taking the world by storm: If Art is just Information then one no longer needs Meaning.
But that's just me.
Here it is installed on Santa Fe's famed Canyon Road under the auspices of Axle Art's The Artist Is In flash-mob group show -- my window of fame was 2-4pm July 5, 2013. This was my first, and very likely last, appearance on our Southwestern hyper-gallery row.
This is a reaction to pretty much everyone and their brother tossing the terms Information Theory and Entropy around as if they knew what they were talking about. I found a particularly interesting usage in the New Museum's Ghosts in the Machine catalog from a (1960's?) article by Abraham Moles, Art and Cybernetics in the Supermarket, which contained a number of schematic systems for creating and analyzing art. Each schematic contained a black box labled "Computer Program", or "The Algorithm", or "Critical Examination of Signals", and/or etc. The text mentioned that one could use Information Theory to implement these functions... Yeah, well, sure. Why not?
So here's my alternative explanation which may or not explain: IT.
And further, I tend to believe that this sort of misreading lead to Conceptual Art taking the world by storm: If Art is just Information then one no longer needs Meaning.
But that's just me.
Here it is installed on Santa Fe's famed Canyon Road under the auspices of Axle Art's The Artist Is In flash-mob group show -- my window of fame was 2-4pm July 5, 2013. This was my first, and very likely last, appearance on our Southwestern hyper-gallery row.