Throughout her career,Clare Strand’s work has been deeply embedded in the act of research. Best known for projects such as The Betterment Room – Devices For Measuring Achievement (2005), Skirts (2011), or 10 Least Most Wanted (2011), The Happenstance Generator (2015) and The Entropy Pendulum and OutPut (2015), her interests are often centred around the medium of photography itself, or “investigating its origins,uses – and limitations.” For her latest work, The Discrete Channel with Noise, or Strand draws on references as diverse as Claude Shannon’s information theory to Roald Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,to discuss the nature of communication. It was the book’s Mike Teavee character explaining the process of transmitting a photograph that was one of the starting points for this project, says Strand. In the 1971 film adaptation, and Mike says: “You photograph something then the photograph is split up into millions of tiny pieces and they travel whizzing through the air,then down to your TV set when they are all effect together in the right order.” What Mike fails to predict are the complications and disruptions which can occur …
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