Ashok Sukumaran   Sukumaran was born to a Japanese mother and an Indian father in Sapporo, Japan in 1974. Sukumaran grew up in Shimla, India.  Sukumaran is a trained architect with a degree from School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, India. He holds an MFA from Department of Design|Media Arts at the University of California,…

Reaction As I was reading this I caught myself agreeing with many of the points that were brought up. Much of this reading reminded me of some of my CS classes. In particular it reminded me of what one of my professors would say. He would say it’s all just bits. He was referring to the way that information is stored…

Art Against Information – Reactions   My initial reaction to the reading as a whole was composed of two main points: 1) The article brings up a good point about Data vs Information 2) Are some of these projects Meaningless? It may sound rather harsh, but these were my honest reactions.   To begin with,…

         Marc Bohlen         The artist that I choose is Marc Bohlen. Bohlen is an artist/engineer who works for the REALTECHSUPPORT company. Using REALTECHSUPPORT, Marc was able to build and design information processing systems, which reflect cultural value. He describes his work as, “the relationship between people and machinery…

     Three Dimensional Data        Reading the Art Against Information article was a way to look at the world differently. In today’s world, everyone relies on phones, tablets, computers, and many electronics, but only a few know about the functionalities of these objects. Behind each interface, lays a complicated data system, which…

Art Against Information    After reading this article, I was impressed by how people presented there can make art out of anything they stumble upon. For example, The Dumpster is a visualization of blog posts.It has over 2000 blog posts of teenage splits. I thought it was absolutely genius to take something so useless(even though it’s a great…

Learning about artists in this class has really opened my eyes to a whole new way of thinking that seems to be common in the New Media world. The artists that we read about don’t just make art with a subject and a background and thats it. They think about every aspect that goes into…

The Light Up Dart Board is a fun way to spice up the dull game of darts. By using batteries and a few extra supllies we are able to light up different areas of the dart board. Depending on which circle the magnetic dart lands, an LED light begins to shine. Materials required: -4 AA…

Drip Lights, 2014 The purpose of this assignment was to explore different ways to activate a switch. In this case the switch will light up an LED light. The switch works by having water close the circuit when the water drops come in contact with the open part of the circuit. This piece is meant to be…