by Carlos Cuevas

After reading Mitchell Whitelaw’s “Art Against Information,” I came to the realization that literally anything and everything can be made into art. I found the process of creating data art particularly interesting. Not only must you fish out the data, you also have to find a way to explicitly morph it into an image. This process is incredibly impressive to me, as I would find great difficulty in transferring data into art. Alex Dragulescu’s Structure 11 and Untitled I caught my attention because of how realistic they look. Structure 11 had a very uncanny resemblance to many of my Architecture friends’ projects, so the fact that it had an underlying source for why it took the shape it did wasn’t that of pure imagination, it was pure data from junk e-mail, or spam.