Media Arts and Technology

One thing that stood out to me from this week’s presentations was how much early media art seems to work between mathematical order and intentional disorder. I have also been learning about early computer graphics and rendering recently, and the two topics started to feel surprisingly connected. Ear...

One work that I found particularly interesting was Zhanyi Chen’s Artificial Satellite Astrology. I was especially drawn to the satellite birth maps. After looking more into the artist, I realized that what I initially thought were digitally generated astrology charts were actually hand-drawn by the ...