Media Arts and Technology

"Aesthetics of Rationality in Early Ages of Computational Art" -- Felix Yuan Now we're in a frustrating state of debating how AI shaped our life and art expression. But at the early age artists faced the same situation as computers came in. They discovered amazing aesthetic from the machine material...

My interest in AI or machine learning falls in the forms and materials that would be otherwise impossible or difficult to realize without it. Just as how at early ages of how the artists realized the aesthetic potentials behind the visualized curve lines that represents mathematical ideas or physica...

Robots, as both a very popular theme in various sci-fi novels and movies and a rapid developing technology, is the closest and most familiar form of artificial creature for people. Artists have used these concepts to make amazing work with robots, whether seeing robots as a autonomous mechanical lif...

Self-Organization in Biological Systems The first chapter of Self-Organization in Biological Systems ( https://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7104.pdf ) gave a brief but clear discussion on the definition and properties of emergent system. In a self-organizing, or emergent system, the system ...

From Algorithm to Artificial Life Computation technology has evolved rapidly from algorithmic era to nowadays AI era, and artists has never stopped to explore the beauty that comes with the new computation technique to create artwork that are otherwise impossible to implement. Algorithmic Art and H...

From Data to Noise. From Collecting to Imagination Data, or information, as a fundamental element in human life, reflect both subjective fact but can be a playground of subjective perception, or imagination. Artistic approach to working with data, Big Data, and streaming data may be summarized in t...

Revealing thing power through the constructed reality of camera and digital image Digital Image construct an alternative reality of space, and reveal the relation of human and non-human objects. By showing the thing power of non-human object, a concept put out by Jane Bennett, the relation of time ...

Marshall McLuhan Canadian Philosopher, media theorist, 1911-1980 He's considered “the father of media studies” "the medium is the message" global village predicted World Wide Web 30 years before invention Understanding Media: the Extension of Man , 1964 (In this book) medium = media = technology he...

Manfred Mohr is a pioneer of digital art, or in his words, an algorithmic or generative artist. Manfred Mohr is born in 1938, Pforzheim, Germany. Growing up, he developed interests in music and high-frequency engineering, and chose fine art as his life-long enthusiasm. After discovering Max Bense’s ...