This is following on from my idea of 'occultation' - something obstructing something else. This is encrypted video, which is shown here without being decoded.
I set up a monitor playing this information, and a laptop converting the movement & light to midi, and so plays a noise. The original information is veiled, there is no content, or the veil itself is the content. Again, this is trying out how to subvert the way technology has to describe everything, into something more honest, or mysterious. 'Unthinking' technology, or 'un-thinking' (like unravelling) technology.
This is an interesting way of understanding communication. Essentially what these things are doing is creating a metaphor. The laptop doesn't know what the monitor is showing, nor does it describe in any precise and literal way what it is showing. But it is still affected by the video. The sound, in a way, is a metaphor for what is being shown.
This i, I believe, a more accurate way of understanding how our brains work, than any cause-effect, pre-programmed result. The way things communicate, such as the synapses in our brains, work like metaphors! It explains much better how we are able to come up with such imaginative things via such illogical means.
After all, the link between the pixels you are seeing and the resultant meaning (words, images etc) could be described as metaphorical, as there is no fixed, 'literal', implicit connection. This idea owes a fair amount to Douglas Hofstadter's work on AI.In particular his work on analogy. For example, in Metamagical Themas he gives the example - instead of 2 + 2 = 4 which is a literal, linear, computer way of thinking - how about making a computer work out an analogy.
'What is to the United States as the Eiffel Tower is to France?' or
'What is to pqc as abc is to aqc?'
The video above might just be an example.
