1)             Jesse Schell in this video brings up a whole slew of different ways that gaming technology is going to affect our physical lives. The most plausible idea that he brings up, I believe, is when he talks about the games on cereal boxes in the beginning of the…

One of the artists who stood out to me in this passage was Roy Lichtenstein. While it is not a New Media artist, he is defined as a “pop artist”. His work utilizes comic strips, manipulating them to a more emphasized effect.  In the picture below, Lichtenstein uses bright colors in order to offset the…

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I was not sure how to add my powerpoint as an attachment so here is the text —Bill Viola: —A Collection of Life Works —Brief Biography —Received his BFA in experimental studios from syracuse university in 1973. —Lived in Florence, Italy for 18 months —From 1976-1980 Bill Viola was the artist in residence for channel…

The concept of using data as an art form is not new nor is it exclusive to new media. It’s been found before in mathematics with the idea of fractals as displayed by early computers with added color. The beauty and acidic quality of fractal pieces drew my attention into the world of mathematics where…

The New Media artist I have researched and will present is David Rokeby. He is a Toronto-based artist who began his exhibitions in 1982. Rokeby works primarily with interactive installations and his had his work displayed all over the world. Three works that I focus on is Very Nervous System, Pixel Cube, and Hand-held. I chose…

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…

Art Against Information In the art against information article we read the author talks about how artists are using various information found on the web and using it as a muse to create various forms of work. One uses breakup blogs as a source, another uses the term “I feel” and others use spam. The…

“Art Against Information” was actually pretty interesting, in my opinion. It really opened my eyes to the fact that anything can used for or made into a piece of art. The idea of using data and making visualizations is something that we encounter everyday however these are very simple approaches, rather than the pieces mentioned…

I have never specially noticed the distinction between data and information. After reading Mitchell Whitelaw’s Art Against Information, I started to perceive how data can apply to art and how to define the define the difference between data and information. I think what Whitelaw wrote “data is the raw material of information, its substrate; information…

From the article I can agree that data is abstract and I would be more surprised about this if I didn’t have some familiar background about this(before I started this class). Data you would think is just information, used for our purposes of gathering intellect but it is much much more. Gathering it and making…