These are alluring possibilities. Here I can provide only a few pointers about the direction such an analysis might take. First, the epistemological axis. Information is the factual data that surround us, available from a variety of sources and able to be easily manipulated using computers. Our society depends upon the collection and consumption of enormous stores of information for its own sake or for entertainment.
Ideas are more complex than data.
They evolve through the intricate interplay of direct experience, memory, insight, and engagement with the ideas of others. Ideas help us investigate what things, events, and experiences mean. Knowledge and wisdom evolve as we grapple imaginatively with ideas. If so, artists must pay attention to the dangers of data overload and the pleasures of electronic data manipulation. Second, the ontological axis.