Data Art Response

The first thing that I'm going to comment on is the format of the article. An unedited word document is not the easiest for reading. It is not that difficult of language which makes the reading easy to follow through. If the language had been more scholarly in such a format the article would have been very difficult to get through.
Is Data-visualization art? data-visualization shows a "fundamental shift from a romantic conception to sublime" I think what Manovich may be trying to say is that graphs and such went from being something of a labor of love to a computer aided form. I wouldn't consider graphs sublime.
There are 4 dimensions to our world, how would one produce more than a 4 dimension image. How does one produce a 4 dimension image? does a 4th dimension mean that something is 3d as well as interactive? does it mean that it is 3d with an interface that a user interacts with?
Computers do offer a lot of options for artists to work with. Not necessarily with creating other media but computers as a subject like we saw in the cube that puts itself up for sale on Ebay. There are endless possibilities when it comes to mapping on a computer, it seems everything could be mapped. And if we map something, do we explain why it was mapped and quantified? or do we simply show it? I think a map and data without a key proves quite useless and cryptic, much like art but considering something maps and data makes it less art and more quantitative, observed and recorded so one should always connect back the data to the content in a clear manner. Manovich discusses this idea, as well as the motivation to connect back and do more than just display. He observes that there is a missing "conceptual elegance", a sense of rhythm,flow and beauty to the mapping work of New Media.
Data work presents many opportunities for an artist to work with and ways to approach such work. Manovich closes with how to portray the human in a world full of data in such work? In a world where we are consistently in connection with New Media and data and cold interfaces, how do we find the life? Where does the human being come into play?