Karina/histories of experimental publishing
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traditional culture of visual images has changed trump/clinton memes - political culture
what is publishing? sharing content with the public communicating content with the public 'wydawnictwo' - dawac / wydawac / rozdawac - give / publish / share
to bring to the public verb made into a noun - activity / process journalism, books, newspapers, Wikileaks, what is the necessity of making things public? is publishing the opposite of privacy? is every form of sharing publishing, is every form of publishing sharing? sharing doesn't necessarily be of information? - could be food
Claude Shannon
- AT&T communication - use binary method for computers - information is about signal and noise - technical motion of information - it can be measured
Gregory Bateson "Information is a difference that makes a difference" information is that was is not redundant information is the bits that are not redundant
bits vs bites 8 bits is a bite AAAAAABA
ASCII table - American Standard Code of Information 127 characters
128 = 27 each ASCII character needs 7 binary character (=7 bit)
Binary (0&1s) binary is not equivalent to digital
- project idea: convert binary 0&1 into red&blue. Make images from binary
Model not just for telecommunications also for conversation on the phone (encoder is microphone, decoder is speaker)
for book publishing: Sender - author Encoder - designer / printing press Channel - book store Decoder - literacy Receiver - reader
is the sender the author or publisher? graphic designer could be the feedback - the process could have a few loops before it ends up on the shelves
what is noise? electrical resistance / physical resistance / static noise degrades signal information is no longer decodable
BitRot - magnetism changes, gets interpreted as something different, distorts 0 to 1
AAAAAABA "Information is a difference that makes a difference" 'A' are the noise 6A 1B 1A - to compress the signal
ex. 1000 x 1000 pixel image uncompressed 28 = 256 (bad jpeg quality) 216 = 65536 (uncompressed tiff)
1 bite per pixel 1000 x 1000 pixel image = 1MB 1 million x the same pixel, so if compressed, file size even smaller
Shannon: the image consists most of noise, not information
this is a purely engineering perspective do not confuse qualitative and quantitive model of information fully yellow painting would be seen as redundant in the Shannon-Weaver model
Edward Ruscha - gas station photo book art books still seen secondary to the exhibition Ruscha wanted to challange that - the book is the art, not the medium
Fluxus early 1960s movement of art performance wanted to operate as a publishing house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus
Is a postcard a publication?
Joseph Beuys for Fluxus: 'hybrid object'
what is the information in publishing?
before: need to transport information from A to B, the book is the carrier now: it has changed. the object / interaction is important and has been overlooked in the past
Flexus galerie und edition hundertmark http://www.hundertmark-gallery.com/fluxus.0.html
record publishing is still publishing Artist anonymous, published by Johannes Goebel - all the information on the record is noise, although the materiality is information itself - the more it get scratched by the sandpaper, the more noise, but different every time. Durutti Column (most punk band ever) - sandpaper album cover Mémoires by Asger Jorn, 1959 (Situationist International).
!!! visit: The PirateBay Library in Rotterdam near Worm
Fifty Unused Zine Titles theblatchfordgallery@yahoo.com.au
Milan Knizak Glued a few records together
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