In reaction to Mitchell Whitelaw’s ‘Art Against Information’, I first learned the difference between ‘information’ and ‘data’. According to the article, information is ‘processing, manipulating, and organizing data’, while data is ‘discovering useful data in large repositories’. Only when organized does data show information, so the two are not the same. I really like what some new media artists have done with this data; for example, ‘We Feel Fine’ collects human emotions, ‘Spam Architecture’ and ‘Spam Plants’ makes spam mail into interesting 3D images. It goes to show that almost anything can be collected into data and turned into something cool. Another random way of using information was in Borevitz’s ‘State of the Union’, which uses State of the Union texts and makes them into interactive texts. What an artist uses to make their art is one creative aspect, but it’s another to make something visually appealing with that random information. It really opens up a whole realm of possibilities, which is what makes this technology movement so interesting.