Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Black Hole Information Paradox,

Archival Inkjet Print, 14x21",

$444

 

This work places the black box of an airplane (a literal recorder of information) in front of a black hole (a celestial object that was thought to absorb all information until proven otherwise by Stephen Hawking’s aforementioned theory).

 

“We see in the cosmos an apparatus that contains an original piece of information in its output (the ‘big bang’) and that is programmed to realize and exhaust this information necessarily through change (‘heat death’).” p.77