Experiments in refactored perception The Awe Delusion

Interesting article on Art and Technology, By Haley Thurston.

“Art is a technology. If you did a Casablanca / Law & Order double feature you might notice that although Casablanca perhaps has more ‘artistic value’ (that horribly vague phrase), Law & Order tells its stories with a mind-boggling efficiency that vastly outstrips the former. Some time after 1960 filmmakers learned how to tell more story with less. They learned how to convey more information in less time and without losing depth. If this kind of compression is one example of artistic technology, in other words, we’ve gotten so much better at it that even the workingman filmmakers that produce network television can do it. It’s artistic electricity. Literacy.”

I see.

wanders off to look at shiny things

CrazyNeutrino said:

Experiments in refactored perception The Awe Delusion

Interesting article on Art and Technology, By Haley Thurston.

It’s not a very bright piece of writing.

• It’s not a very bright piece of writing.

I don’t know about the whole article but the premise quoted by Peak Warming Man sounds like the musings of some stoners…

>more information in less time

i’m happy with the same amount of information, in the same time
because same he’s not such a terrible little fucker
sometimes ol’ want less information, othertimes none at all’s fine
too I got mental states, me own time, clocks suck