Before the end, something is coming to an end. The general digitization
of channels and information erases the differences among individual me-
dia. Sound and image, voice and text are reduced to surface effects,
known to consumers as interface. Sense and the senses turn into eyewash.
Their media-produced glamour will survive for an interim as a by-
product of strategic programs. Inside the computers themselves every-
thing becomes a number: quantity without image, sound or voice. And
once optical fiber networks turn formerly distinct data flows into a stan-
dardized series of digitized numbers, any medium can be translated into
any other. With numbers, everything goes. Modulation, transformation,
synchronization; delay, storage, transposition; scrambling, scanning,
mapping-a total media link o n a digital base will erase the very concept
of medium. Instead of wiring people and technologies, absolute knowl-
edge will run as an endless loop.
I am dancing with the idea of erasing medium. Or at least coming close. Combining mediums doesn't seem as dangerous... but we're getting there.
Endless loop of information
Endless space
Endless objects
Endless subject? How can I make my subject endless?
Quantity over quality
without image sound or voice
Transition to numbers
Audio recording of binary messages?
Locations-
Long hall, window
Outdoor space?
Optical illusion?
Computer desk?
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