All of these projects represent work in progress, one off speculations into our relation to database driven computational culture. Each one engages a particular element crucial to database culture: the relational machine of relational database management systems, the pattern seeking prerogative of data mining, and the importance of interface . via | Database Defamiliarisation.
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High-order social interactions in groups of mice
Social behavior in mammals is often studied in pairs under artificial conditions, yet groups may rely on more complicated social structures. Here, we use a novel system for tracking multiple animals in a rich environment to characterize the nature of group behavior and interactions, and show strongly correlated group behavior in mice. We have found… Continue reading High-order social interactions in groups of mice
User-interactive electronic skin for instantaneous pressure visualization : Nature Materials : Nature Publishing Group
Electronic skin (e-skin) presents a network of mechanically flexible sensors that can conformally wrap irregular surfaces and spatially map and quantify various stimuli1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Previous works on e-skin have focused on the optimization of pressure sensors interfaced with an electronic readout, whereas user interfaces based on a human-readable output were not explored. Here, we report the first user-interactive e-skin that not only spatially maps the applied pressure but also provides an instantaneous visual response through a built-in active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display with red, green and blue pixels. In this system, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are turned on locally where the surface is touched, and the intensity of the emitted light quantifies the magnitude of the applied pressure. This work represents a system-on-plastic4, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 demonstration where three distinct electronic components—thin-film transistor, pressure sensor and OLED arrays—are monolithically integrated over large areas on a single plastic substrate. The reported e-skin may find a wide range of applications in interactive input/control devices, smart wallpapers, robotics and medical/health monitoring devices.
Tangible Media Group
RADICAL ATOMS
To address this challenge, we presented our new vision, “Radical Atoms”, in 2012. Radical Atoms takes a leap beyond Tangible Bits by assuming a hypothetical generation of materials that can change form and appearance dynamically, becoming as reconfigurable as pixels on a screen.
Radical Atoms is a computationally transformable and reconfigurable material that is bidirectionally coupled with an underlying digital model (bits) so that dynamic changes of physical form can be reflected in digital states in real time, and vice versa.
Radical Atoms is the future material that can transform their shape, conform to constraints, and inform the users of their affordances. Radical Atoms is a vision for the future of human-material interaction, in which all digital information has a physical manifestation so that we can interact directly with it. We no longer think of designing the interface, but rather of the interface itself as material. We may call it “Material User Interface (MUI).”
Tribology
Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. It includes the study and application of the principles of friction, lubrication and wear. Tribology is a branch of mechanical engineering and materials science. via Tribology – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Data-Driven Artists And Their Critics- Rob Myers (review)
– Jonas Lund © Data-Driven Artists And Their Critics | www.furtherfield.org.
Paul Prudence – artist
Paul Prudence is an audio-visual performer working with algorithmic and generative environments. His work, which had beenshown and performed internationally, focuses on the ways in which sound, space and form can be cross-wired to create live-cinematic visual-music experiences. An overview of selected works can be found at here Limited edition digital artworks at Sedition Paul maintains the… Continue reading Paul Prudence – artist
Cognitive ethology – inside the minds of other species
Tim Schwartz
About. Tim Schwartz grew up in St. Louis, MO. He received a BA in Physics from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. In January 2010, he developed technology to help reunited missing people affected by the earthquake in Haiti and now organizes a group dealing with… Continue reading Tim Schwartz
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital – we make money not art.
The Writer Automaton
The Writer Automaton – YouTube.
THE PNEUMATICS OF HERO OF ALEXANDRIA
THE PNEUMATICS OF HERO OF ALEXANDRIA. Some of these automata descriptions from Heron (around 150BCE) are amazing. Brilliant resource. Also: http://history-computer.com/Dreamers/Heron.html and step back to http://history-computer.com/ for more automata history. Also great.
Datalandia, the fictional town saved by data
Datalandia, the fictional town saved by data.
EEG devices for mice
NeuroLogger — Welcome to NewBehavior AG. Also tracking cages and other mental equipment.
Robots Used in Animal Behaviour Studies
Animal robots have become a unique tool for studying the behavior of their flesh-and-blood counterparts.
via Send in the Bots | The Scientist Magazine®.
Amy Youngs – interactive sculptures, installations and new media art work
Animals and Aesthetics
Evental Aesthetics | Current Issue.
Data Artists – Aaron Koblin / Chris Milk
Koblin – Data Visions – Think Insights – Google. http://www.google.co.uk/think/articles/the-knowledge-chris-milk.html [use for refs] This refers to Data Paint: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/the-rise-of-the-data-artist-in-business
Online data haunts
The Knowledge: Simon Roger – Think Insights – Google.
Dielectric / Electroactive Polymers
▶ Electroactive Polymers Part 1: Shower Hose Stretching Mechanism Video Tutorial – YouTube. Pt 2 – stretching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgNKeqOCOKE&feature=share&list=UUMq2XZHOUiR8ZBDtTeRAJQw ShapeShift: http://youtu.be/4XGVMXCxBNA – really great how to of architectural shapes + linking them Butterfly-like wings from Uni of Sydney: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBAzjJwFkS0
Entrainment (chronobiology)
Entrainment (chronobiology) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Naked Mole Rats do not have a circadian rhythm as they live subterraneanly. Would rhythmic sounds affect them? What would be the equiv of them hearing in the wild – antelopes?
Stretching Sound to Help the Mind See by Walter Murch
The danger of present- day cinema is that it can suffocate its subjects by its very ability to represent them: it doesnt possess the built-in escape valves of ambiguity that painting, music, literature, radio drama and black-and-white silent film automatically have simply by virtue of their sensory incompleteness — an incompleteness that engages the imagination… Continue reading Stretching Sound to Help the Mind See by Walter Murch
Prelinger Library
Megan Prelinger: Art, Advertising, and Outer Space – Boing Boing. early data representation visual at 13mins…
507 Mechanical Movements
507 Mechanical Movements.
Multiplexing infos
bildr » Muxing Around With The CD74HC4067 + Arduino. http://www.instructables.com/id/Multiplexing-with-Arduino-and-the-74HC595/ http://playground.arduino.cc/learning/4051
john grade’s capacitor moves and illuminates with weather data
hygroskin: a climate-responsive kinetic sculpture via john grade’s capacitor moves and illuminates with weather data.
NMR Scanning
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. vs Naked Mole Rat Scanning 🙂
Friendchips
“the AVID brand Friendchip type is peculiar due to its encryption characteristics. The simple fact that a cryptographic feature is provided in a chip would not necessarily be unwelcome; few pet rescuers or humane societies would object to a chip design that outputs an ID number “in the clear” for anyone to read, and, in… Continue reading Friendchips
Big Data report
Raconteur on Big-data-2013.
Deciphering Butterflies’ Designer Colors
The Optical Society – Deciphering Butterflies’ Designer Colors: Findings Could Inspire New Hue-Changing Materials.
Digital Wave – The Independent (1998)
The new wave in art – Arts & Entertainment – The Independent.
Data visualization: ambiguity as a fellow traveler : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group
Being sure is good; being uncertain is not necessarily bad. Research teams are working to render uncertainty visual. via Data visualization: ambiguity as a fellow traveler : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group. The visualization platform Caleydo has a functionality called StratomeX that reveals uncertainty factors in data analysis. Shown here, different clustering algorithms used… Continue reading Data visualization: ambiguity as a fellow traveler : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group
Andreas Koller
UK data vis Portfolio – Andreas Koller.
Databrary
The Databrary ProjectMost developmental scientists rely on video recordings to capture the complexity and richness of behavior. However, researchers rarely share video data, and this has impeded scientific progress. By creating the cyber-infrastructure and community to enable open video sharing, the Databrary project aims to facilitate deeper, richer, and broader understanding of behavior.The Databrary project… Continue reading Databrary
UK Data Archive – FILE FORMATS TABLE
FILE FORMATS TABLEThe UK Data Archive works with different data formats for different purposes. There are optimal data formats that are used for long-term preservation of data.This table contains guidance on file formats accepted by the UK Data Archive for deposited data. We welcome queries from researchers about appropriate file formats for working and preservation,… Continue reading UK Data Archive – FILE FORMATS TABLE
Historical Global Temp data sonified
A Song of Our Warming Planet A sonification of historical average global temperature provided by NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies. A solo cellist plays the temperature, simply mapped to notes. The video is overlaid with a standard graph of the temperature increasing, which indicates that the makers felt the need to compound the sonic… Continue reading Historical Global Temp data sonified
BAM/PFA – Archiving the Avant-Garde
Works of digital and Internet art, performance, installation, conceptual, and other variable media art represent some of the most compelling and significant artistic creations of our time. These works constitute a history of alternative artistic practice, but because of their ephemeral, technical, or otherwise variable natures, they also present significant obstacles to accurate documentation, access, and preservation. Without strategies for preservation many of these vital works – and possibly whole new genres such as early Internet art – will be lost to future generations. Description of and access to art collections promote new scholarship and artistic production. By developing ways to catalog and preserve these collections, we will both provide current and future generations the opportunity to learn from and be inspired by these works. It is to achieve these goals that we initiated the consortium project Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art.
via BAM/PFA – Archiving the Avant-Garde.
Use for reference.
Martin Wattenberg: Data Visualization: Art, Media, Science
Martin Wattenberg makes amazing work. And I like how he describes what he does – use this in paper as an explanation of viz vs art. My work focuses on visual explorations of culturally significant data. I’m constantly seeking new ways to represent information to create connection, insight, narrative and beauty. via Martin Wattenberg: Data… Continue reading Martin Wattenberg: Data Visualization: Art, Media, Science
British Newspaper Archive
Home | Search the archive | British Newspaper Archive. Useful resource for searching for word that have appeared in the press. For instance, a search for the word data showed that 21,483 articles had the word data in them from 1700-1999. Searching for the word fact pulls up 273,873 articles from same database. What would… Continue reading British Newspaper Archive
Unsupervised Learning
Unsupervised learning – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. CHAT J A is this true Machine learning techniques that crunch through very large data sets to learn and gain ‘meaning’ from them tend to work on popularity and frequency bias. A a lot of the words there are ill defined.. A popularity of what? A frequency of… Continue reading Unsupervised Learning
Art Materials (and History) [refs]
Painting materials; a short encyclopaedia http://whatsinthe.library.qmul.ac.uk/index?R=3056230400
Artists’ pigments c. 1600-1835 : a study in English documentary sources
http://whatsinthe.library.qmul.ac.uk/index?R=3325825024
Methods and materials of painting of the great schools and masters.
http://whatsinthe.library.qmul.ac.uk/index?R=2325221376 The pigments and mediums of the old masters : with a special chapter on microphotographic study of brushwork
http://whatsinthe.library.qmul.ac.uk/index?R=3970555904
Data Art vs. Data Visualization: Why Does a Distinction Matter? [link]
A pretty hilarious take on data art vs data visualisation, in which the author (Stephen Few) and (most of) the commenters fail to understand what data art is (imo). I am mildly incredulous, however, as much as I don’t want to perpetuate the blog post, I really think it has value in exposing some key… Continue reading Data Art vs. Data Visualization: Why Does a Distinction Matter? [link]
The Nature of Code [book]
The Nature of Code. Online book with processing code and tutorials by Daniel Shiffman from ITP. Great.
The Art of Data – exhibition
Peter Hirshberg: The Art of Data. Huffington Post article http://theartofdata.org/artists/ Exhibition website LOVE the Casey Reas work: http://vimeo.com/50404575 but some of the other work is too veering on the visualisation side of data art for my personal pref. Too didactic. it is a purposefully programmed version of the video of my laptop dying from 2004
Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity – YouTube
Some nice stuff at the beginning about data vis, and then veers to mechanical turk stuff. Aaron Koblin says data can make us more human. Can we more human? He also quotes Manovich (without citing him – weird) 19th century culture was defined by the novel, 20th century culture by cinema, the culture of the… Continue reading Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity – YouTube
dat: A Collaborative Data repo
Great idea from Max Ogden about a way to enhance the move to open data. Dat will encourage users of open data to share the scrubbed, formatted, transformed, or sync’d data back to a repository so that others can use the data without going through the same process. What is dat? dat is a new… Continue reading dat: A Collaborative Data repo
A Taxonomy of Data Visualization
For some time at Visualizing, we’ve been working on a commonsense taxonomy of data visualization. This is still a work in progress, but we wanted to involve the wider community in the discussion. There are already all-inclusive glossaries of specific techniques, and there are several academic approaches to classification (Bertin, Schneiderman, etc.). But we’re looking… Continue reading A Taxonomy of Data Visualization
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.
Data Visualisation taxonomy of sorts in a rollover graphic format. Ironically it is very ugly, and the design requires some serious typographic overhaul. Anyhow – a useful mapping of data visualisations.
xkcd: Desert Island
xkcd: Desert Island. …”the most exciting new frontier is charting what’s already here”
dataists » A Taxonomy of Data Science
5 steps of what a data scientist does, in roughly chronological order: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, Model, and Interpret, by Hilary Mason (bit.ly chief scientist): Both within the academy and within tech startups, we’ve been hearing some similar questions lately: Where can I find a good data scientist? What do I need to learn to become… Continue reading dataists » A Taxonomy of Data Science