How Data Became a New Medium for Artists - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/05/the-rise-of-the-data-artist/392399
signalé par Elisabeth Vallet à Montréal que nous remercions chaleureusement
It’s unlikely Claude Monet would have been Claude Monet without the portable paint tube, which allowed him to work outside and experiment with capturing natural light. Andy Warhol wouldn’t have been Andy Warhol without the modern movie star or the mass-produced Campbell’s soup can. Art is as much a product of the technologies available to artists as it is of the sociopolitical time it was made in, and the current world is no exception. A growing community of “data artists” is creating conceptual works using information collected by mobile apps, GPS trackers, scientists, and more.
