“Float: Evaporation and Dissipation of Digital Information” presented by LIN, HUANG, JHENG and Chiu
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- Mixed (short papers)
Presentation Title:
- Float: Evaporation and Dissipation of Digital Information
Presentation Subtheme:
- Speculative practices
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Abstract:
Behavior and objects in the physical world are constantly being transferred into large amounts of “information.” As people attempt to find methods to validate the existence of “information,” they also start to try to calculate the “infor-mation weight” by scientific methods. However, the tiny weight of an object after transferred into information is very different from the original object that people perceive. Think-ing about it further: While digital technology is compressing and eliminating entities in people’s impressions, the weight of the world’s existence is also rapidly condensing, depleting, and evaporating, without us even realizing it. The art project “Float” aims to explore the weight of the world that has been dissipated through various transformations in digital technol-ogy. The project collects postings about “I Lost”and focuses on the disappearance of every materiality. Each operation of a unit scale-like installation represents the production, trans-mission, and dissipation of information. After losing weight in the digital process, the residual minimal weight is diffused into space by the installation, striving to rekindle people’s sensory experiences of “loss.”
