reconstruction: THE MEDIUM

ON WHAT DEPENDS THE TRANSMISSION OF DATA

  • time

  • encoding / decoding

  • network delays could hinder it

  • medium used to transmit

  • control feedback

  • source

  • receiver

  • whether it has to be compressed into one form and then decompressed eg things like false color in images on spacecraft / satellites

  • people

  • decoding the data

  • three aspects: signal, source, receiver

  • machines

  • uncertainty and how we quantify it

HOW CAN WE ALTER THE PERCEPTION OF SIGNALS | INFORMATION ?

Using filters? context! << oohhhhhh!!!

difference between data and information–

data as just constant random input

and

information as data organised and contextualised to express something

i like the idea of context of comparing based on scale / relative size, even like a context of a different software / trying to open files in software they weren’t meant to be opened in, the medium of it reminds me of obsolete devices/technologies

perception is all about the receiver? adding randomness or uncertainty, filtering (eg Kalman filters), probability, adding events prior and after the one we are looking at (eg posterior probability)

Known mediums

photoshop, gimp, ableton, garageband, scanning, laser printing, corel, a calculator photo editing software like photoshop or lightroom or even mspaint or even google slides or google doc maybe haha printing image files then drawing on them? printing image files then cutting them for collages

New mediums

projecting images to some distorted surface seem fun to try or even blocking some parts of it for different silhouettes on top of the projected image if we can somehow incorporate smell with data I think that would be cool ^agree

Living mediums

land art bio art fermentation pickles yeast is digital media alive? digital medium = living medium? what are the differences and connections between digital and electronic and technology shaving QR codes on animals? tattooes of QR codes or morsecode on skin? dance movement, performance time-based

SYNTHESIS & DIGITAL MATTER

recreating Synthesizers

Does playing a karaoke version of a song on youtube and singing on top of it count as synthesizing analog and digital sounds? lol

Processing, Programming, Creating.

Bringing things together.

I definitely only really think of music. I don’t jump to other forms of media when hearing this, but when you relate it to digital matter, then i stop thinking of music and think of waves.

We saw in the first session how waves, or frequencies can be applied to more than sound, with the JPEG compression stuff.

Combining.

My first thought with the word synthesis is sound, the act of synthesizing sound putting things together maybe sound and image?

Modular

SSTV image decoder