Nº 136 :: Screening: The Bit Player

We screened The Bit Player, a documentary about Claude Shannon, in Kino 1 at Vega Scene. It was presented as the only screening of the film planned in Norway, and tickets were sold through a separate ticketing page.

Shannon introduced the "bit" in a 1948 paper and helped establish information theory, with influence on communication, computing, cryptography, artificial intelligence, linguistics and genetics, among other fields. The film combines interviews, archival footage and animation with dialogue drawn from Shannon's own interviews.

It also shows how Shannon, when interviewed in the 1980s, preferred to talk about his gadgets, such as juggling robots and a Rubik's Cube solver, rather than his earlier work.

The original event page is on meetup.com.