Where to start? This is obvious. Right here. Move from left to right, top to bottom.

This is hardly informational overload. But it is demonstrative informational conflict, ambiguity.

One may ask: where does one "information surface" end, and another begin? This certainly seems problematic.

Is this grid you are currently viewing a single information surface, or is each individual cell a surface on its own?

Conflict dwells between these cells. There is no unified sentiment, only alternate angles and ways of framing questions. Each notion is atomised, self-contained.

I would place more within this cell, but the table becomes warped.

Cells
Become
Vertically
Stretched.

Perhaps
Vertical
Information
Is
Pleasing?

Where does one start and where does one finish? Surely this is a most daunting question when processing multiple information surfaces simultaneously.

We are competing for space, competing for attention. But how are you to determine which cells are worth reading, without reading them?

Perhaps when Manovich speaks of "density" in relation to cinematic aesthetics, he presupposes not that information is spatially dense, but that multiple competing sorts of information exist within the one space.