Fact, Digital, and… Art?

One say, that Luke DuBois’s work combined art and digital to represent data. It’s true, in some contents, in which his visualizations are neither simply accumulating numbers, nor superficially shows off the complex, magical algorithms that he generates. It do makes me feel some distinctive differences between the nerdy visualizations that science people, may include me, made, in aesthetic perspective. But are those arts, or could we call it art? Definitely we didn’t get in touch with all his works; and the works that our gallery depicted might not be the best among all his “arts”. But I cannot feel the artistic attributes of the depicted works. Yes, the moving pictures, I can call it an art. But the word cloud, or the keyword maps, I highly doubt their “art” definition, if anyone would define that. The reason is simple: I cannot see anything that he intended to express. I’m not an art person, so my evaluation might be invalid, or, full of BS. However, as my own views, I thought that any art, no matter what format they are in, is trying to tell the viewer, by some kinds of human instinct, a passionate, detailed feelings or words, that the maker of that art willing to tell. But I cannot see his passionate words. As for word cloud, well, interesting, and that I what I felt. It just expresses some fact, or even not true “facts”, but some biased expressions based on the “lies” of the presidents. For the word map, yes, it is interesting, very interesting. But a figure made by hand could not be categorized as art, as I could not hear him scramming anything, but simply generating words from some amazing black box. And that is why I like the “self-portrait”. It is obviously based on fact, and probably be organized by computer, and most importantly, it’s an art. He is expressing. He is, in my point of view, telling the vastness of human communication and networks. His conversations made a picture of beautiful “stars” and orbiting the vast star called Luke Dubois. He is not telling this fact using any numbers, bar graphs, or pie charts, but using a beautiful “photograph” of stars.

 

 

 

 

 

PS: I’m willing to post a picture of the self portait, but I cannot find a sufficient one on the internet.


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