1.) What is plausible and what is implausible about the future Jesse Schell describes and most importantly, make a clear case why? After watching the video, I think it is plausible that technology will get so cheap that over time, sensors will be everywhere. These senors will be able to detect our movements and help…

Living Skins & Big Brother video 1) What is plausible and what is implausible about the future that Jesse Schell describes and, most importantly, make a clear case for why? The scary part is… that its all very Plausible. Extremely so. We DO have sensors for almost everything right now. Wireless sensors, movement, brain activity,…

Raphael Lozano-Hemmer is electronic artist who was born in Mexico. He makes large interactive instillations that have gained him attention and awards. His works range in medium but all embrace new technology. For example, his latest work, Sphere Packing, incorporates 3d printing into his technique. Most of his pieces allow the viewers to interact with…

 source: x  Zimoun is a self-taught Swiss artist who specializes in “architecturally-minded landscapes of sound.” Many of his works involve taking a sound and extrapolating it on an epic scale by installing many identical versions of the same simple machine. He often uses hundreds of simple DC motors to drive the machines, which repeatedly produce…

For my Artist Presentation I have chosen Amy Youngs for her work in Biological Arts and Interactive Sculptures. Recieving her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and an Associate Professor in art at the Ohio State University, she explores the relationship between technology and the changing concept of nature…

Jim Campbell Source For this assignment the artist that I decided to research and present about is Jim Campbell. What initially gave me interest into researching his work was that he was one of the artist in one of our earlier readings. As I began to see his work I was immediately drawn into it. I was amazed to see…

Jannet Cardiff Jannet Cardiff was born and raised in Brussels, Ontario, Canada. After receiving her MVA from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, she met her future husband and collaborator George Burer Miller. She started off as a photographer and printmaker, and most of her early work was silkscreening. Eventually Cardiff developed her style and began…

I found Michael Whitelaw’s “Art Against Information” to be a little dry and academic. It was hard for me to get into. I did find it interesting that Whitelaw mentions that Alex Dragulecu didn’t reveal the process he used to map data from spam emails from Spam Architecture. We’ve been focusing a lot on open…

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…