Media Arts and Technology

Bio.display The goal of this project is to create a dynamic display screen that is illuminated by genetically modified fluorescent bacteria. The project is done mostly by Ákos Maróy under an Artist in Residence program at The Arts & Genomics Center in Leiden, the Netherlands. The first step of the ...

In Harold Cohen’s “What is an Image?,” Cohen discusses the development of AARON through which he defines the image-making and art-making process. He writes that images cannot simply be defined as representational, an abstraction, or abstract as it is a reflection of the 20th Century’s preoccupation ...

cellmap.jpg Attributes: 1. All of the images are made up of parts that produce a whole. The roads and landmarks come together to form a city and country. The individual cells or cell parts come together to form whole tissues and body parts. 2. Each image is intended to be informative. Pictures of c...

This advertisement displays a beautiful young woman with a look of surprise on her face. She appears to be about to take a bite of a sandwich. Below the woman the sandwich is depicted again along with a drink and French fries. This literal aspect of the image is known as the non-coded iconic message...

In Stephen Mamber’s “Marey, the analytic, and the digital,” Mamber draws a distinction between Marey’s chronophotography and cinema by stating that his work was based in analysis as opposed to narrative. I chose to compare Marey’s work to databases in order to further exemplify its basis in science....

While camera obscura was often used to aid in the making of art, it also has a darker side. The earliest know use of a camera obscura for war occurred in 1859 in Venice when Austrians who held the city built a camera obscura that overlooked the harbor. Torpedoes were sunk in the harbor and their pos...