PRESENTATION: THE AGE OF NOISE

Definitions of noise and information are constantly changing. Eryk Salvaggio – a blend of hacker, artist, and writer who works with AI and new media technologies – suggests that with the perfection of data storage and the World Wide Web, we have reached the end of the so-called "information age." Today we enter the "age of noise." At the heart of AI technology and social media algorithms is a struggle to define and eliminate noise. How might artists explore these shifts to make sense of the contemporary moment? Threading the history of communication and computation technologies, Salvaggio’s talk and video visualisation maps the history of noise from the Big Bang to cybernetics to generative AI.