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Who are we?

What is The Information Delivery Service?

Brought together through the mutual admiration of and hunger for information, the Information Delivery Service is a simultaneously semi-fictitious and hyper-real organisation that idiosyncratically investigates information of all kinds, genres, breeds and descriptions. Our inaugural appearance in March 2012, titled WHAM-BAM-LECTURE-LECTURE, presented the topic of Information Speculation. We used this opportunity to report back the findings of our analysis into our attempts to navigate, filter and consume information. We also discussed effects of information overload on our health, psyche and philosophy and suggested possible coping mechanisms, models and solutions that can be applied. Now our foundational structure is firmly in place, the IDS plans to present a series of case studies using our knowledge progression models to absorb and deliver information.

The Information Delivery Service has been operating in and around Edinburgh since mid 2011.

CLUTCHING AT STRAWS SINCE 1989:

Associate Claire Adams Ferguson

Associate Hazel France

Associate Faith Limbrick

The Information Delivery Service: Micro Scenario: Courtyard

27/04/2012

Tropical Information

Watch this space for future IDS screenings.

If you missed the lecture in March, sign up to our mailing list to be informed direct of our next events!

www.informationdeliveryservice.co.uk

mindblown

Stories online.

Tris

Tris Vonna-Michell

Auto-Tracking: Ongoing Segments, 2008
Performance at Jan Mot, Brussels

In the installation Auto-Tracking, Vonna-Michell combined this visual material to form a story, in which several narrative strands interconnect. He told stories and recounted the history of places, people and objects and, in this, created a reality that interwove historical facts and fictions in a multitude of possible narratives. The two-part installation consisted, first, of a telephone station, with the help of which Vonna-Michell entered into direct contact with the viewers through an intimate dialogue, and, through specially selected images spread out on a table, further developed the performance in oral form with a breathtaking fast-speaking performance. For the second part, an almost identical installation was set up in another room of the Kunsthalle, in which the received calls were collected and archived.

IDS plant shaking

Anaesthetic

In the interest of Tedious Links and the Linear Progression Model as demonstrated by the IDS, here is the anaesthetic scene from Dogtooth. (Thanks to associate France)

Plant Music

'Different types of music were then utilized in her following experiments. She tried acid rock music by Led Zeppelin, Vanilla Fudge, and Hendrix. It was played to one group of plants and semi-pop music (of the 1970's) to another. The "acid rock music" plants were sickly and small compared to the control group of "semi popular" music (now termed soft rock).

The other genres of music she experimented with: were classical music (Debussy), jazz (she used Louis Armstrong among others), and Indian (Ravi Shankar). The plants grew large and healthy, with the plants actually growing towards the radio for each of these three forms of music, just like they bend towards sunlight. Dorothy also experimented with country music (such as Jonny Cash) and found they neither grew toward or away from the speakers and seemed neutral. While Dorothy did have a personal bias and by the end of her research she believed plants could feel and were capable of ESP. She felt perhaps it was the lyrics that the plants didn't like with the acid rock music.

It seems the plants like all types of music, except hard, pounding rhythms, but prefer stringed instruments the most. They also didn't like a constant tone played for 8 hours per day, but how many of us do!'

An opinion on the effect of different types of music on the well-being of plants.
1970s experiment conducted by Dorothy Retallack.

KRAFTWERK R GO

If The Information Delivery Service were to make music.

Kraftwerk

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

Music Non Stop

Fat Booth

Progression Model

Monday 26th March.
Venus and Moon
Witnessed by the Information Delivery Service

The brightest object in the night sky, beside the second brightest object in the night sky.

Photographed on HTC Desire.

Mailing List

Please visit the IDS website and join our mailing list to receive updates and news of future events.

http://www.informationdeliveryservice.co.uk/

Information Speculation

WHAM BAM LECTURE LECTURE PART 1: Information Speculation

The first public lecture given by The Information Delivery Service at Inspace, Edinburgh

The performance lecture and installation was undertaken by myself and my Associates on 15th March 2012.

Recording of the event was permitted.

All images shown were provided by audience.

Ultimate Screen Fuck

In collaboration with Hazel France

GIF. IDS update

http://www.informationdeliveryservice.co.uk/

WHAM-BAM-LECTURE-LECTURE

48 hours | WHAM-BAM-LECTURE-LECTURE

15th March 2012, 8pm.

Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

The Information Delivery Service proudly announces its first public lecture on the topic of Information Speculation.

Attempts are being made by each one of us to make some sense of the constant stream of social, audio, spatial, visual, local and global information in which we find ourselves precariously spinning.

Each of us attempts to do so equipped with approximately 1.4kg of electrolysed grey matter. At this moment in time no method has yet been employed by the human race to absorb and funnel this data to a satisfactory level.

The IDS is dedicated to developing it's own idiosyncratic concepts of communication and information, knowledge and expertise.

They aim to dissolve these structures and wallow somewhere in between imagination and anxiety, taking pleasure in the inevitable impossibility of it all.

http://inspace.mediascot.org/48hours/IDS

Synonyms

1. data, facts, intelligence, advice. 2. Information, knowledge,wisdom are terms for human acquirements through reading, study, and practical experience. Information applies to facts told, read, or communicated that may be unorganized and even unrelated: to pick up useful information. Knowledge is an organized body of information, or the comprehension and understanding consequent on having acquired and organized a body of facts: a knowledge of chemistry. Wisdom is a knowledge of people, life, and conduct, with the facts so thoroughly assimilated as to have produced sagacity, judgment, and insight: to use wisdom in handling people.

Dictionary.com