Implicit information

TITLE: IMPLICIT INFORMATION

Our definition of implicit information as information that is not making a factual statement, but is implicit in cultural artifacts, mores etc., and of visual literacy (a definition for the International Visual Literacy Association), as "literacy associated with implicit information", opens up a whole realm of possibilities to be developed. While our ethics, legislature and academic production have been focused on factual, explicit information, we have been culturally (and ethically and politically) dominated by the subtle implicit information, which we have not yet learned to decode, or control. The creation of prototypes—the core activity on the other side of the mirror, by which agency is restored to information—opens up a myriad possibilities for combining art and science. As we shall see, in the Holotopia project this will be our core approach.