Immersion into Noise, by Joseph Nechvatal.
You can read it online. I'm on the editorial board of this so I'm excited about it.
The noise factor is the ratio of signal to noise
of an input signal to that of the output signal. Noise can block or
interfere with the meaning of a message in both human and electronic
communication. But in Information Theory, noise is still considered to
be information.
By refining the definition of noise as that which addresses us outside of our preferred comfort zone, Joseph Nechvatal's Immersion Into Noise
investigates multiple aspects of cultural noise by applying the audio
understanding of noise to the visual, architectural and cognitive
domains. Nechvatal expands and extends our understanding of the function
of cultural noise by taking the reader through the immersive and
phenomenal aspects of noise into algorithmic and network contexts,
beginning with his experience in the Abside of the Grotte de Lascaux.
Immersion Into Noise is intended as a conceptual
handbook useful for the development of a personal-political-visionary
art of noise. On a planet that is increasingly technologically linked
and globally mediated, how might noises break and re-connect in
distinctive and productive ways within practices located in the world of
art and thought? That is the question Joseph Nechvatal explores in Immersion Into Noise.
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