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Su Ballard

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2012

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Et Al. That's Obvious! That's Right! That's True!, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Et Al. That's Obvious! That's Right! That's True!, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

A review of an installation by et al. for Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetu. July 23 - 22 November 2009.


Information, Noise And Et Al, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Information, Noise And Et Al, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

At their most simplistic, there are two means for shifting information around - analogue and digital. Analogue movement depends on analogy to perform computations; it is continuous and the relationships between numbers are keyed as a continuous ordinal set. The digital set is discrete; moving one finger at a time results in a one-to-one correspondence. Nevertheless, analogue and digital are like the two companions in Serres' tale. Each suffers the relationship of noise to information as internal rupture and external interference. In their examination of historical constructions of information, Hobart and Schiffman locate the noise of the analogue within its …