Hans Rosling's data interaction scenario.
http://tshwi.blogspot.com/2010/12/hans-rosling-interacts-with-health-data.html
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Visualizing.org
Would love to see a movie version of this.
Just one of many great works coming out of this site http://www.visualizing.org/.
Part of the Open Data Initiative.
http://www.opendataday.org/
Just one of many great works coming out of this site http://www.visualizing.org/.
Part of the Open Data Initiative.
http://www.opendataday.org/
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Webcam Piano
Does bring about more ideas about Kandinsky and synesthaesia.
Webcam Piano 2.0 Teaser from Memo Akten on Vimeo.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Heart Chamber Orchestra
From Finland - the orchestra plays it's own heartbeats.
http://gizmodo.com/5603593/orchestra-generates-music-based-on-its-own-heartbeats
Heart Chamber Orchestra - Pixelache from pure on Vimeo.
http://gizmodo.com/5603593/orchestra-generates-music-based-on-its-own-heartbeats
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Visual semiotics, information visualization and whales
Juxtaposing images can sometimes trigger waves of thoughts (see Sergei Eisentein's dialectic). The first image is a typical schematic diagram of a protein, where the lines and coils are symbols for the various molecular arrangement a polypeptide chain can adopt. The second is an information visualization diagram from Colin Ware's publication on the underwater behaviour of humpback whales: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MCG.2006.93
We routinely reinterpret information into forms that allow us to perceive salient features. The resulting visualization mapping encoding systems may have a structure similar to a visual language, complete with grammars and syntaxes. Scientifically or artistically (whichever you choose) we might ask the following; How can we create languages that can be understood universally? The majority of our spoken and written languanges evolved at a time when our needs were much different (prehistoric communities). How is our language changing to fit the needs of this time where we have access to many different forms of information? And is in really that different? Phenomenologically and psychologically speaking, we are information receiving bodies - evolution has equipped is with a physical anatomy designed to perceive aspects our environment in ways that we are still only beginning to understand. What are we in relation to the flow of information? Perhaps starting with Norbert Weiner's cybernetic theory to Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind, we might think of ourselves as information processing units within a larger network of units that demonstrates characteristics of a scale-free architecture. It's like an economy where the currency exchange of bits and bytes changes form from energetic to physical to the biochemical to electronic realms and back again, various levels of organization/encoding/being named and back to the abstract in a never-ending, constantly-evolving pattern. Whether you chose to use the terms fractal, holographic or recursive depends on your preference. When we play a part in society or larger organizations we act as agents of information transmission. We ourselves are composed of information coding entities (from tissues to cells to proteins to genes, all of which arrange themselves into networks of information transmission). One of the goals of art I feel is to communicate a great deal within the simplest of gestures, lines, intonations (high information content communication). If our subconscious is recording everything, then how can we use this? And maybe all of this is more mysterious than any dialogue like this could ever hope to comprehend – doesn’t stop us from trying to push back the shroud, if even ever so slightly.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Places and Spaces - Mapping Science
http://scimaps.org/maps/browse/
From this article in Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=scimaps-exhibit&sc=physics_20100528
From this article in Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=scimaps-exhibit&sc=physics_20100528
Atlas In Silico at the CRCA
Gesturally-controlled immersive audiovisual data exploration of the PLOS ocean survey data.
http://www.atlasinsilico.net/gallery.html
http://www.atlasinsilico.net/gallery.html
Friday, May 28, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Architecture and information
Psychology, architecture and information visualization collide.
http://sensingarchitecture.com/4088/how-architecture-space-can-thrive-by-pulling-information-patterns/
also this:
http://sensingarchitecture.com/4088/how-architecture-space-can-thrive-by-pulling-information-patterns/
also this:
Thursday, April 29, 2010
28 Data Visualization Tools
I believe CrisisMaven has posted this before but it's a good overview:
http://www.insideria.com/2009/12/28-rich-data-visualization-too.html
http://www.insideria.com/2009/12/28-rich-data-visualization-too.html
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Ocean Data
Open data for visualization:
Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) - Part of the Census of Marine Life (COML) profiled in this retweet from Manuel Lima's Visual Complexity
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/blog/?p=797
Also check out
The Global Ocean Tracking Network
and
Marine Barcoding - where ecology and bioinformatics meet.
Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) - Part of the Census of Marine Life (COML) profiled in this retweet from Manuel Lima's Visual Complexity
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/blog/?p=797
Also check out
The Global Ocean Tracking Network
and
Marine Barcoding - where ecology and bioinformatics meet.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Light installations
Would love to see this applied in Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Room
http://www.justinlui.net/projects/animatefield/http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/2009-04-16_yayoi-kusama/
Labels:
immersive environments,
installations,
interfaces
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Meat and connectivity
Per capita consumption
http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0909/let-them-eat-meat/flash.html
Pig 05049 - exhibited in Rotterdam
http://www.indexaward.dk/index.php?option=com_content_custom&view=article&id=375:pig-05049&catid=9:winners-2009&Itemid=20
http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0909/let-them-eat-meat/flash.html
Pig 05049 - exhibited in Rotterdam
http://www.indexaward.dk/index.php?option=com_content_custom&view=article&id=375:pig-05049&catid=9:winners-2009&Itemid=20
Art, football and epistemology?
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/02/football_drawings.html
Perhaps reminiscent of something by Sol Lewitt
http://www.diacenter.org/exhibitions/checklist/3
or
Mark Lombardi
http://www.designobserver.com/observatory/entry.html?entry=1697
And the maps of science published in 2006
http://wbpaley.com/brad/mapOfScience/
Also this:
http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm?exh=662&do=vexh&type=I
Perhaps reminiscent of something by Sol Lewitt
http://www.diacenter.org/exhibitions/checklist/3
or
Mark Lombardi
http://www.designobserver.com/observatory/entry.html?entry=1697
And the maps of science published in 2006
http://wbpaley.com/brad/mapOfScience/
Also this:
http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm?exh=662&do=vexh&type=I
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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