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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)

Senescence

From wikipedia: Senescence (from Latin: senescere, meaning “to grow old,” from senex) or biological aging is the process of accumulative changes to molecular and cellular structure that disrupts metabolism with the passage of time, resulting in deterioration and eventually bringing about death. Senescence occurs both on the level of the whole organism (organismal senescence) as well as on the level of its individual cells (cellular senescence).  Species with… Continue reading Senescence

_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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#quantifiedDeath (conservation)

In a Frontiers of Ecology paper provocatively entitled “Counting the books while the library burns”, CEED researchers Professor David Lindenmayer and Dr Maxine Piggott of the Australian National University, and Assoc. Professor Brendan Wintle of the University of Melbourne warn that some conservation programs are standing by and watching species die out. They produce evidence that many wildlife… Continue reading #quantifiedDeath (conservation)

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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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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

Tangible Media Group

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).”

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

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

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Online data haunts

The Knowledge: Simon Roger – Think Insights – Google.  

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Prelinger Library

Megan Prelinger: Art, Advertising, and Outer Space – Boing Boing. early data representation visual at 13mins…

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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

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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]

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The Art of Data – exhibition

Julie Freeman - My Laptop Dying (still from video) 2004

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  

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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

Thread on naked mole rat training (NYC)

Thread by a PhD student trying to track Naked Mole rats in NYC by using a MakeyMakey system (conductance). They say “Apparently naked mole rats have an incredibly high electrical resistance” Not sure this is of any use to me, but may be worth contacting them to compare datasets etc… via Naked mole rat training.

A Taxonomy of Data Types

A Taxonomy of Data Types – Statistical Machine Learning and Visualization. A table of data types that refers to distribution, for example: type: categoric atom example: word in Eng Lang distribution example: Multinomial (1,theta) This taxonomy at the technical end of the data type spectrum and is unlikely to be used by artists. — It… Continue reading A Taxonomy of Data Types

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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

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

SMART Home

Videos from the SMART research group: http://www.youtube.com/user/SMARTQMUL actuators and sensors Queen Mary SMART research group – head – Federico Carpi The main research focus of the group is on biomedical & bioinspired mechatronic devices made of smart materials. The group moves from the experience that Dr Carpi has matured in twelve years of research activity at… Continue reading SMART Home

SiReBi

Biosensing deals with the collection of information from living systems. Due to advancements in the life sciences, electronics fabrication and data management, deeper and deeper levels of bio-data can be gathered. Pervasive sensing systems, and biosensing in particular, define a new chapter in the use of technical systems to monitor life and the human body.… Continue reading SiReBi