Media Arts and Technology

This week I would like to discuss 2 artists Anna Ridler and Egor Kraft, whose artworks share similar visual effects but have different logics behind the works. Ridler's projects about tulips, irises and other flowers show how she interprets and deconstructs natural forms into encodable parameters. B...

For this week, I’m interested in case studies that explore the idea of consciousness, especially Dream Painter (Varvara & Mar, 2021) and Conversations with Bina48 (Stephanie Dinkins, 2014–ongoing). Dream Painter asks whether machines can understand or represent something close to human unconsciousne...

This week, I would like to discuss Cellular Automata (CA) and how they demonstrate emergence and self-organization. CA can be described as a system made of manycells that follow three basic principles: 1.The cells exist on some kind of grid, 2. Each cell has a state, 3. A cell’s future state is dete...

This week I’ll discuss three projects that manifest different ways of constructing speculative “lives” under the critical inquiry : What does life consist of? PlaSphere offers one of the most straightforward answers: life is constructed by the surrounding environment and materials, and it evolves as...

The three artworks I would like to discuss are Listening Post by Mark Hanse & Ben Rubin, Making Visible the Invisible by George Legrady, and Million $ Block Project from Center for Spatial Research. To me, these projects manifest social structures via different forms. Listening Post (2001) collects ...

Internet of things The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the vast network of physical objects—or "things"—embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet. It's about bringing the digital intel...

Legible City (1989) I am extremely interested in this work with my background as an urban designer. The work is location-based with three famous cities- Manhattan, Amsterdam and Karlsruhe. In the work, they are all cities constructed with words and stories. Manhattan consists of 8 different stories ...

The article I’m interested in is “Computer Art System: ART-3,” developed by Mutsuko and Takeaki Sasaki. I chose it because it reminds me of AutoCAD hatches and computational drawings that I draw every day without thinking about how they actually work. ART-3 explores how algorithms can assist in crea...