After reading Mitchell Whitelaw’s Art Against Information, a few things became more clear to me and caught my attention. First off, I learned that dealing with data and information it may be difficult to make a distinction between the both of them. Whitelaw says, “It is demonstrated that data art often turns away from information in an attempt to present the data itself”. The process in which you work with data is a concrete exploration of what data is, does, and can do. Not only that, but it also involves a set of assumptions and narratives that construct data as material in the cultural imagination. Another thing that I learned was that the Whitney Museum’s Bistreams and Data Dynamics and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 010101 was a stamp of approval for data practice as a key element in New Media Art. I also felt it was helpful when he described “data-subjectivety”. He uses it to describe the role of the individual in society. He mentions that it involves the personal, every day experience of data, it was something that I can relate to because we come across data everyday.

-Emily Guerrero