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Dear Beryl and List As a small contribution to Beryl's question - > Do we have examples of artists who transform data into knowledge? I would suggest that all artists transform data into knowledge. In support of this, I would say that sensuous knowledge and conceptual knowledge offer insights into the world that are as valuable as the knowledge produced in science. Also, I think that artists collect, analyse and synthesise all sorts of data - qualitative and quantitative - within 'frameworks of understanding' specific to art (but which constantly change). I think data and knowledge are particularly relevant to art now for a number of reasons, most of which, I would argue, focus on the different artistic articulations of the so-called 'knowledge economy'. For example, what are our artistic strategies when forms of knowledge (creativity, emotional, sensuous knowledge) previously of little interest to industry become the focus of the new economy? What happens when it is not just the object produced through 'artistic knowing' that is commodified? What happens when it is the processes of artistic knowing that are most valued by the market - not just the art market? Kate --------------------------------------- Kate Southworth Glorious Ninth http://www.gloriousninth.com [log in to unmask] Interactive Art & Design Research Falmouth College of Arts Falmouth, Cornwall, UK [log in to unmask]