Category: art

Bird songs stunningly visualised in animation

As part of the Europeana Creative project, Sound and Vision commissioned Australian artist Andy Thomas to create an inspirational digital sound sculpture re-using two bird sounds from its archive. The result is a visually mesmerizing artwork that has been very well received. If you would like to know more about how this video was made… Continue reading Bird songs stunningly visualised in animation

Thorbjørn Lausten – data art

Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art Thorbjørn Lausten’s 2003 exhibition Datablik (Dataview) and his long-standing, pioneering work at the intersection of art, science and technology. The exhibition format REVISIT is an annual event focusing on some of the significant art projects held at Overgaden in the past. In 2015 we revisit Thorbjørn Lausten’s 2003 exhibition Datablik… Continue reading Thorbjørn Lausten – data art

Sensible Data (art installation)

“Sensible Data” is an interactive installation consisting of three machines that invite to create a passport from your personal data. Take a picture of yourself and a machine will draw your portrait. Send an email and an algorithm will judge your mood, age, gender and beauty. By pressing a dubious button, you can get a… Continue reading Sensible Data (art installation)

Turning Data Visualization Into Art: Data as a Muse

Turning Data Visualization Into Art: 7 Artists Use Data as a Muse. Artists are using available technology to create masterpieces out of everything from disease and weather to Wi-Fi and the music of internet chatter. Though we generally think of artists as slaves to a flash of inspiration, to the fickle muse, artistry today is interactive and deeply… Continue reading Turning Data Visualization Into Art: Data as a Muse

Ken Goldberg – Mori and Bloom (real-time seismic data)

Making Art Out of Earthquakes – The Atlantic. Mori http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/art/mori/ Bloom (in collaboration with Fernanda and Viegas – http://hint.fm/projects/bloom/ ) references http://www.kennethnoland.com/ – an abstract painter. nice. I also think it is very similar to the Wired piece they did in 2008. Hmmm. In this interview, KG talks about making a long-form artwork. This is… Continue reading Ken Goldberg – Mori and Bloom (real-time seismic data)

Getty vocab usage

Intro to Getty’s cataloguing system. Really helpful page on the difference between Display (text that will be read by the end-user) and Indexing (text that uses a controlled vocabulary (AAT) for finding and accessing the works) https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/intro_to_cco_cdwa.pdf [pdf] DISPLAY VS INDEXING Patricia Harpring © 2015 J. Paul Getty Trust. For educational purposes only. Do not… Continue reading Getty vocab usage

Big Bang Data

Exhibition | Big Bang Data. Use exhibition for the analysis of how data is described in data art.

mechanisation of mental labour – notes

Nice couple of mind maps about mechanising mental labour. These relate to the ideas behind We Need Us (ref the VISAP 2015 paper specifically). GoConqr – Introduction to mechanisation of mental labour.   https://www.goconqr.com/en/p/476668-mechanisation-in-the-mechanisation-of-mental-labour-mind_maps  

The Performing Data Project @ FACT

The Performing Data Project – FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology).   14 July 2015 – 21 July 2015 The Performing Data Project presents a series of artworks, informal presentations and a makers session exploring the concept of performing data.

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Ian Ingram | Animal Machines

Ian Ingram | Machines. Really relevant work for the NMR project intro. Go through further and explore use of data, anthropomorphisation, kinetic motion

Noumenon

The noumenon (/ˈnɒuːmɨnɒn/) is a posited object or event that is known (if at all) without the use of the senses.[1] The term is generally used in contrast with, or in relation to “phenomenon”, which refers to anything that appears to, or is an object of, the senses. In Platonic philosophy, the noumenal realm was… Continue reading Noumenon

LAURIE FRICK | Walking, Eating, Sleeping

LAURIE FRICK | Walking, Eating, Sleeping. “Numbers are abstract concepts but we recognize pattern intuitively. I’m experimenting with wall size patterns that anticipate the condition of our daily-selves. Very soon walls and spaces we occupy will be filled with easy to decode patterns – a visual record of how we feel, stress level, mood, bio-function… Continue reading LAURIE FRICK | Walking, Eating, Sleeping

Safety in Numbers? data and art article

Frieze Magazine | Archive | Safety in Numbers?. Algorithms, Big Data and surveillance: what’s the response, and responsibility, of art? Jörg Heiser asked seven artists, writers and academics to reflect.

Maps as Pieces of Art

  Artists Turn City Maps Into Pieces of Art | Experience cities like a local!.

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Unnumbered Sparks

Unnumbered Sparks. For TED’s 30th anniversary, artists Janet Echelman and Aaron Koblin collaborated to createUnnumbered Sparks, a monumental interactive sculpture in the sky. Choreographed by visitors in real time through their mobile devices, at night the sculpture became a crowd-controlled visual artwork on a giant, floating canvas. The sculpture spanned 745 feet between buildings in downtown Vancouver, Canada from… Continue reading Unnumbered Sparks

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Drawing by Numbers

http://www.translatingnature.org/drawing-by-numbers/ http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/plan_your_visit/events/media_space_events/drawing_by_numbers.aspx With Simon Emberton – an experiment in capturing the essence of a life drawing as a piece of computer code may see it.

Lifestreams | Proboscis

Lifestreams | Proboscis. Lifestreams Proboscis has been commissioned as part of Anglia Ruskin University’s Visualise programme to collaborate with Philips R&D UK, based in Cambridge Science Park. Over 6 months or so we will be exchanging ideas and iterating prototypes that  address issues of personal motivation, continuity and relevance in the use of health monitoring technologies for… Continue reading Lifestreams | Proboscis

Information at MOMA (1970)

‘Information’, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970, claimed to be the first conceptual art exhibition mounted by a U.S. museum. Catalogue: http://www.moma.org/pdfs/docs/press_archives/4483/releases/MOMA_1970_July-December_0003_69.pdf?2010 This exhibition is a seminal one in terms of current information / media / data art. Ensure reference in thesis. The PDF is downloaded to Papers library. Would be good… Continue reading Information at MOMA (1970)

Monoskop

Monoskop, a wiki for art, culture and media technology.

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_Big Bang Data | CCCB LAB

_BIG BANG DATA is an exhibition about the ‘datafication’ of the world curated by José Luis de Vicente and Olga Subirós with ZZZINC activities management. In the lead up to the opening in May 2014, CCCB LAB offers a window into the production process through a series of articles in which the curators offer a preview of the… Continue reading _Big Bang Data | CCCB LAB

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Cymatics (Hans Jenny)

In 1967, Jenny published the first volume of Cymatics: The Study of Wave Phenomena. The second volume came out in 1972, the year he died. This book was a written and photographic documentation of the effects of sound vibrations on fluids, powders, and liquid paste. He concluded, “This is not an unregulated chaos; it is a dynamic but ordered pattern.” Jenny made use… Continue reading Cymatics (Hans Jenny)

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Stephen Fortune -Database Defamiliarisation

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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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