RT03 -  The information in the Universe
(Art against the sematic webworld - some questions and other answers)

Is there any information in the universe which is free of sense?
Is it possible to create information which is free of sense, artificially?
Is information our enemy - nature versus information?
Is dark matter only information?


Information technology splits the media art in the mid-nineties of the last century from the classical art context. The interfaces between humans and computer systems were getting simpler. The work with digital media could be made without knowledge of technology. Artists of all genres could use this interfaces to mediate their works. But some artists who had worked at this time with new technologies had a problem with the independence of this media.
The era of classical media artist (and inventor) who is working alone, on own systems, was gone. The unique and independent artwork, was suddenly outdated. Intellectual thinking for artists was changing.
So, what is to do?
It seems that the descriptions of mediaart and all utopias of the eighties was created from a other generation. A interactive, interdisciplinary and a distributed thing was born with the Internet. The thing. One of the last classical media art work was created by Wolfgang Staehle, Helmut Mark, Max Kossatz... titled: the thing.net. Another artwork in Austria was the Electronic Gallery from Kunstlabor. With progression technology of information, was a possibility to combine all of this things, (the utopias of the eighties: interactive, interdisciplinary and distributed working) are compressed in digital layers. In the early years of programming home computers and before layer technology was no "opensource" programming. Artists could work with digital technology in classical art context, but he was in a dependency of a company. The solution for people, who cared for more independent thinking, freedom and creativity was an open-source system called: Linux. But classical artists and the art market had a problem with this, because the parameters of copyright was changing. In this period you can see a generational change in computer technology as well as in media art. "Net Art" (what ever this is), redeemed "Media Art"

It seems everything was fine, but something was and is more wrong with relations between the things media, net, information and art. Classical art as well as media art can have a content free of sense. But in the "World of Information" is no place for things with free of sense. Free of sense do not mean senseless things.
But we are looking forward, and we see not a problem with art we see a general problem with the information - The parity


It seems there is no counter balance to the information. The theory of information (Shannon) says the opposite of information is redundancy. This means: only the difference between two things is information. This definition is too narrow, and for an artist there have to be more things in relation to the information. The evulotion shows us a alternative way to handle Information. There are dreams, drugs and music (art). A kind of Informations free of sense but necessary for living. It's time to bring freedom and future into this stupid classical technical term of information. The nature shows a way but in the moment this is incompatible with our reality. If we want to come forward we need more things it opposite. It is not easy to create an artificially information free of sense. In our solution (RT03) we have to go near to the border of the macro cosm. Because in a system (in a reality) you can not get a true "free of sense" (random) signal. Everything depends on everything else. You have to go to the edge of our reality and thinking, on the border of our system. Sometimes we have to leave the principle of science, to bring both kind of informations together. Only a Information in a classical technology meaning togehter with a information free of sense or the information of art (maybe NegInformation) can bring us up in a new area. In our Technology we have to learn the artificially dreaming.

In the history of technical research, art or other sources of senseless information were not serious and useful enough to be a part of developments.
For example if you are working in a technical profession, sleeping, abstract painting or music is always part of leisure time and not part of your work. But after the last mysteries in the science are gone and the negative entropy expands, information that is free of sense would be one of the most important things. To liberate the classical information in a technical way could be a next level for programming computers. Media(technology) and art could be the link between senseless and classical information, this means media-art is not a classical art discipline and not a classical technical development tool. Information which is free of sense is in the future not only something for our leisure time, it becomes a part of professional work.
If you want to work with art and technology, you have to imply the strangest things (such as an information free of sense) which you can find inside and outside our horizon.
In nature there is the mystery of our dreams to regenerate from information, it is automatic and necessary, but in the world of information technology this link does not exist.

Only one idea more: If Information is not only in our head, there is a great possibility that information is everywhere. But where is the storage for this information? Maybe there is something in the universe that is something like a strange matter. The universe starts to expand at the big bang, space-time was born. If also the Information was created at this time, Information cant be in the continuum with  this space-time, because space-time is a knowledge of Information. I see a possibility that information goes in the other direction, space-time is expanding and information is in the opposite compressing. And if Information is compressing since the universe is expanding then I think it could be possible that all the live on our Earth comes very compressed from outer space. The evolution is decompressing since this time.

Anyway, if we want to work with Information we have to separate two different kinds of Information. With our radio telescope we can receive information hundred of thousand years old, an information free of sense or an information that is not strong compressed.














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