Rebecca Ruige Xu, associate professor of electronic arts, exhibited her project, “Out of Statistics: Beyond Legal” at Techfest2013, IIT Bombai, India on January 3- 5, 2013. Xu’s project consists of a series of computer programming generated abstract drawings based on US crime statistics as archival-ink prints on silk. Each image represents the crime status in one of the states, with the seven most significant crime-conviction statistics of each state embedded. The project’s setup at Techfest 2013 included 27 silk panels.
Techfest is Asia’s largest art, science and technology festival. Envisioned as a confluence of academic and industry, it was the first to hold the Leonardo Da Vinci art exhibits, introduce Japan Media Art Festival in India and brought in multiple exhibitions on media art including Ars Electronica.