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
Category: art
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital – we make money not art.
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
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…
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.
Digital Wave – The Independent (1998)
The new wave in art – Arts & Entertainment – The Independent.
Andreas Koller
UK data vis Portfolio – Andreas Koller.
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
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 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
Global Sequencer
Ed Carter and Matt Jarvis Global Sequencer Overview from Matt Jarvis on Vimeo. via Global Sequencer Overview on Vimeo. Commissioned by CultureCode, Ed Carter and Matt Jarvis created an audio visual experience from a dataset of their previously commissioned EyeProject. Using latitude and longitude coordinates, the map is designed to create sound from any location-based… Continue reading Global Sequencer
Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture
Data Engineering
This is an important concept when considering data as an art material. Should the data take the lead in the work, will it be the defining factor rather than something plugged-in afterwards (this is an issue for my current thinking in constructing a physical work that can cater for various data streams)… Data Engineering Posted:… Continue reading Data Engineering
Art Forms from the Ocean: Ernst Haeckel
marc böhlen: glass bottom float
marc böhlen: glass bottom float. The Glass Bottom Float (GBF) is a floating public robot with the mission of making the critical assessment of recreational water quality a transparent and participatory experience W.G Sebald might have appreciated. GBF cruises along a beach shore, and offers itself as a resting spot in places it deems… Continue reading marc böhlen: glass bottom float
marc böhlen: advanced perception chickens & robot
marc böhlen: advanced perception. Advanced Perception ( 1999 – 2000 ) early animal machine interaction experiments This project was an early experiment in mixing machines and animal societies. Three chickens, Rhode Island Red hens, were held in a spacious cage together with a mobile robot for 60 days. The robot was programmed to share the… Continue reading marc böhlen: advanced perception chickens & robot
Artists who work with Science Links
Protected: The Internet of Living Things
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
A Life in AdWords, Algorithms & Data Exhaust. Interview with Erica Scourti.
Uselessness of Art [links]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_art
Oscar Wilde’s quote discussion: http://forums.philosophyforums.com/threads/all-art-is-quite-uselessoscar-wilde-55699.html
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wikiquote.
The Uselessness of Art (paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2010.01412.x/abstract