Thursday, November 7, 2013

DATA VISUALIZATION





“As the art being made has dematerialized and the world around us is increasingly information based, using data as another medium for artistic exploration seems not only possible but culturally necessary. The same tools used by corporations and governments to track our interests, desires, locations, and personal information can and are being exploited by artists to criticize, explore, and find poetic moments within the stream of data. This panel explores current approaches being used by artists working with data but with an eye to the past and culture. Since the available data sources range widely from weather patterns to stock-market trends to GPS locations and possible output spans all types of new and traditional media, this panel does not hone in one a specific issue but works as a survey connecting conceptual and critical points within this practice.”

LINKS:
Great Book: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/database-aesthetics
Edward Tufte: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
Aaron Koblin: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work.html
Information Aesthetics: http://infosthetics.com/
Information is Beautiful: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

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