Today, the concept of information is somewhat like the child of divorced parents who is pressured to conform to the views of one parent at a time but never both at the same time. With the advent of digital technologies, this “child” has gro…Shanken, E. (2007). Telematic embrace: Visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousness by Roy Ascott. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Shannon, C. (1949). The mathematical theory of communication. In C. Shannon & W. Weave…
Victoria Vesna
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Victoria Vesna is an artist and theorist working at the intersection of art, technology, and consciousness who engages with cybernetic and information-theoretic frameworks to understand how digital systems reshape aesthetic experience and human subjectivity. The readings position her work as part of a lineage extending from Shannon's information theory through Ascott's telematic art toward contemporary questions about how meaning emerges from technical systems rather than pre-existing in them. Her contribution matters for grounding abstract concepts of information and consciousness in artistic practice and speculative design rather than leaving them purely theoretical.
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