“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…

After reading Art Against Information, I could see the clear distinction between how they distinguish data and information. Data is the raw results, and it is concrete whereas information is the meaning we take away from that data. Information allows us to interpret, gather, and cultivate that data into something that is logical and give…

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…

         First and foremost, one aspect of the case study that I found interesting the many ways that data can be used to make different types of art work.  Through this, I gained a better sense of how data presented in art and how it allows for more subjectivity and analysis of…

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 the Art Against Information, I found it visually effective to understand the spam interaction from Alex Dragulescu’s peices structure 11 from the Spam Architecture Series and the Untitled 1 from the Spam Plant series. In the structure 11, it is represented by straight rigid edges as a base but with another structure representing a…

The artist I choose is Joachim Sauter. He is a German artist and designer in the field of new media installations and spaces, and he is a pioneer of new media. He has been developing in this field for many years since 1980s, and he started his media studio ART+COM in 1988. Before he founded…

For my art presentation I have chosen Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. He was born in Mexico City in 1967. His projects are based for public participation with using technology to do an interaction such as his light and shadow shows. Many of his kinetic sculptures, responsive environments, video installations and photographs have been shown in museums in…

Bill Viola                   Bill Viola is one of today’s leading artists, who received his BFA in Experimental Studios in 1973. After graduating from Syracruse University he worked in Italy as a video/tape artist in one of the first video art studios in Europe. In 1979 Bill and Perov traveled…

by Carlos Cuevas For our Artist Presentation assignment, I chose to research Janet Cardiff. Upon researching this new media artist, I discovered that a lot of her work/installations have been in collaboration with George Bures Miller. This new media duo, originally from Ontario, Canada, have a broad range of installations spanning over two decades. Cardiff’s…