Infolab

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let's finally start to evaluate art through imaginary information and not in the context of shannon's information, it's really stupid because we are destroying our own future.

We are in a socio-economic crisis - we think its a crisis of information - capitalism and technology. We are looking for solutions and new perspectives. However, our projects are not based solely on Claude Shannon, who erroneously attributes information theory - we think, with the information theory we made the greatest mistake of the last 70 years. In Infolab we focus on John Archibald Wheelers statement - Its from Bit..

Internet kill your Soul. With various setups and actions we want to point out the necessity of an irrational information theory for a new IT.


The Complex Information

Our IT is shaped by this Shannon's theory of information. It is based on “logically correct” conclusions and ultimately puts individuals and creativity at risk. But a new better information technology should have “complex information” at its centre. Similar to the complex numbers in mathematics, an information content could be composed of an imaginary and a real part.

From Second Nature to Third Nature

In the second nature, nature learned to deal with information. Information was stored in the genetic material. The real part of the information developed through communication possibilities and through natural laws that people agreed on. Humans built information machines and developed a digital capacity for abstraction, especially in the real part of the information. The third nature emerged via a machine-filtered real part of the information. Digital machines referenced themselves and created a new reality. Emotional decisions had less and less significance in it.

Flammarion's wood engraving 1888 - unknown Artist




OUR WORK

2023 Patterns of our society - Chat with GPT3 about the topic of Infolab
2022 Radiotopia MS Stubnitz Hamburg
2021/2022 Gibling as an NFP - Non-Fungible Picture
2020-2021 Free Information needs free Media
2020 The third Nature and Interferences of the unknown
2020 The Rotting Apple
2020 Interferenzen: Fugues in rational numbers 1986- und Fugues in komplex Numbers
2020 Amro 2020 Video -Vapour source of chaos Amazon - Heart of the World
2019 STWST48x5 - The concave sand hole
2019 Our own ECO-SYstem From Gibling to XGiveCoin - Event Cryptocurrencies
2018 Mycelium Network Society (MNS) —– at Biennale Taipeh
2018 From Nothing to Something - Space Time Entanglement Lindabrunn und STWST48x4 Linz
2017 The Blockchain - constructed truth
since 2017 Infolab Streaming Server and Youtube LIVE Channel
Infolab vs Digital Physics Sept2017
From Nothing to Something - convergence to zero by fx 1986-2017 Sept 2017
Infolab 2017 - Digital Physics Nonstop Videotalks bei stwst48x3.stwst.at sept 2017
Mycelium Network Society 2017 Transmediale - ongoing
Special handling of information by mushrooms 2016- ongoing
The Infolab Radioshow each third thusday on air at Radio FRO
Infolab 2017 - stwst48x3.stwst.at
Pilze als Informationsträger 2016- ongoing
Surf and Inform the Water 2016- ongoing
Ghostradio 2016
7067 Its not a Test - INFOLAB 2016- ongoing
Das Aalhotel 2015
Schattenlaboratorien

Mycelium Network Society 2017 Shu Lea Cheang - ongoing
Mycelium Network Society auf der Transmediale 2017

Artists in Residence - The Mycelium Network Society 2016

Nonstop Screening of Infolabs

The term “Digital Physics” partially coincides with the thinking models of the Infolabs to make these ideas accessible to the public, we run a video clip in the room of http://servus.at 3 weeks (from 20.8 to 10.9) with the following Programm or check our Infolab Youtube channel

The autonomous information network on ships

Ships are islands, they offer autonomous structures. That's why we work a lot on ships. We have been working on ways to reflect the Internet for several years. In order to get an observer status on this powerful information network you have to be able to disconnect yourself from the system. We try that with our own autonomous information network. The first experiments started in 2006. 2011 Armin Medosch wrote a text about it. In 2016 we extended our experiments with SlowScanTv from our ship in Linz. From this followed the information network "7067 -Its not a Test". Based on image transfers, an alternative information network was created. Due to technical and content developments, however, bandwidth of the information network has been further reduced in order to achieve higher ranges.

Milestones were developed in 2016/2017 to make this network accessible to everyone.

More Work with independent networks you kan see at - Funkfeuer.de