The Compression of Information

I find the theory and development of the Eameses communication methods to be quiet fascinating. The article that we read talks about how a technique called "fast cutting" corresponds very closely to the way our brains record images. In this filming technique images are shown in quick succession. The Eameses added further to the technique when making the film Glimpses that was shown in the American Exhibition in Moscow when they added multiple screens to the mix. The whole idea behind Glimpses was to convey a huge amount of information in a relatively small amount of space and time. It was in effect, compressing the information.
It makes me think that this type of information overload must have been very impactful on the Russian people especially since it was a completely new thing. Because it was such a large amount of information, the Russian people also must have left the exhibition feeling like they have a better grasp of what America is like. Glimpses seems to me to have been a very effective form of propaganda used to win over the Russian people to Americas side and also to gain admiration. I would be very interested to hear a personal account from a Russian who saw this Exhibit to fully understand the impression that one was left with after viewing the images.
There is also something kind of Sci-Fi about the idea of compressing information and relaying it to a human being to absorb and then process that information possibly subconsciously. But then it makes me wonder how much information am I myself processing subconsciously on a daily basis in our ever-growing multimedia society.
-Michelle Finch