# Sound, Motion, Notation

## Computation

• Alan Turing's On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936): Turing Machine can compute anything computable

• Claude Shannon's A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948): information can systematically be encoded

Information → Computation ⇒ Result

## Abstraction

• Computation is an abstraction of process

• Information is an abstraction of meaning

Generalized concepts:

• Model complex systems

• Compress time and distance

• The nature of intelligence itself

## Art

Channa Horwitz's Sonakinatography series (1968-2012)

## Encoding Information

The key to my work is simplicity and complexity. I have been working with the premise that any complexity can be understood in it's simplest form. In my notations I am interested in breaking through the barrier of the different arts, because they all have a common language. In these notations I am searching for some connecting link to establish a clearer reality.$^1$

~ Channa Horwitz (1974)

### Quantitative Art

John F. Simon, Jr.'s Every Icon (1997-present)

• Running since January 14, 1997, 9:00:00 pm.

• Every Icon will make every black and white computer icon possible on a 32x32 grid within the next several trillion years.$^2$