Ursula Hentschlaeger
Tracking a Current
Notion of Information
1999
If information is regarded as an
idependent entity, this means, first and foremost, that
information exists as such and without any exterior influence
(naturally).
If information is seen in connection with
understanding and / or meaning, however, then behind that
information there is someone who produces information
(artificially).
This fundamental distinction can be
observed even at the level of algorithmic represent-ation and,
consequently, also applies to the level of development.
BACKGROUND
INFORMATION
AS ENTITY
Statements, in: www.zeitgenossen.com/outerspaceip
2002
What art, technology and science have in
common is perhaps the need to understand the world as such -
which exists in all these fields - and the fact that different
disciplines do research into similar issues as a consequence.
However, the tools used in each case are specific to the
respective field, and so are the methods applied. Information
is the focal concept in this context. It simplifies the world
in that everthing boils down to information, and at the same
time, it makes understanding harder because nobody can say
precisely what it really is.
Communication science works with the
connection between information and message. On the other hand,
artistic engagement with media means using information as a
basic material. The idea was to list various approaches and to
make it possible to get closer to a definition of the current
notion of information. A research project on this topic was
planned and postponed.
INFORMATION
AS POWER
STATEMENTS
