Visualizations: Art
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The different visualization systems shown below are organized by application domains, and by type (borrowed and adapted from Viz4All).
The application domains include:
Art
Resume/Infographics
Category: Art/Social Media
Where: huffington.com
Implementation: NA
Date: March 2011
From huffington.com: We think it is, but we don't know anything about design. This is Convergence Senior Chris Spurlock's resume, and it's the best resume for a student journalist we've ever seen. But like we said, we're not design-minded people, so we want to get the input of people who do know a thing or two about design. That's where you come in!
Wifi Light Painting
Category: Art/Technology
Where: Yourban.no
Implementation: Photography
Date: 2011
From vimeo.com: This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs.
A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting.
Seed Drawings
Category: Art
Where: infosthetics.com
Implementation:
Date: 2011
From infostethics.com: The project called Seed Drawings is an experiment on visual emergent algorithms (think Cellular Automata, L-systems, swarming, ant colony optimization, and the like), but then applied to the online labor marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk. Each Seed Drawing is an aggregate of many smaller drawings, all produced as copies of one another.
Over a 3 month period, thousands of individuals were solicited to copy small simple line drawings. As each copy was completed, it in turn was replicated by other Mechanical Turk workers.
Lisbon traffic as living organism
Category: GIS/Greographic/Art
Where: mondeguinho.com
Implementation: NA
Date: Feb 2011
From mondeguinho.com : In this work the traffic of Lisbon is portrayed exploring metaphors of living organisms with circulatory problems. Rather than being an aesthetic essay or a set of decorative artifacts, my approach focuses on synthesizing and conveying meaning through data portrayal. This portrayal is embodied in the visualization: The Blood Vessels in the traffic of Lisbon. I use an adaptive physics system to build and manipulate the road network – the thickness, the color and the length of the vessels are excited by the number of vehicles and average velocity in each road. With this system I try to bypass the strictness of contemporary visualizations that depict data accurately through direct mappings.
The Johnny Cash Project
Category: Art
Where:thejohnnycashproject.com
Implementation: NA
Date: Jan 2011
From TheJohnnyCashProject.com: The Johnny Cash Project is a global collective art project, and we would love for you to participate. Through this website, we invite you to share your vision of Johnny Cash, as he lives on in your mind’s eye. Working with a single image as a template, and using a custom drawing tool, you’ll create a unique and personal portrait of Johnny. Your work will then be combined with art from participants around the world, and integrated into a collective whole: a music video for "Ain’t No Grave", rising from a sea of one-of-a-kind portraits.
Strung together and played in sequence over the song, the portraits will create a moving, ever evolving homage to this beloved musical icon. What’s more, as new people discover and contribute to the project, this living portrait will continue to transform and grow, so it’s virtually never the same video twice.
Typographical Portraits
Category: Art/Design
Where: designm.ag
Implementation: NA
Date: Jan 2011
New High Quality Fonts
Category: Art
Where: Smashing Magazine
Implementation: NA
Date: Jan 2011
From Smashing Magazine: In this selection, we’re pleased to present Pompadour Numeral Set, Lato, Crimson Text, Espinosa Nova, Musa Ornata, Spatha Sans, ColorLines, Roke1984, Neuton, Avro, Baurete and other fonts. Please note that some are for personal use only and are clearly marked as such. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts; they may change from time to time.
The eCloud Project
Category: Art/Science/Installation
Where: San Jose Int'l Airport
Implementation: Installation
Date: 2010
From ecloudproject.com: The eCloud is a dynamic sculpture inspired by the volume and behavior of an idealized cloud. Made from unique polycarbonate tiles that can fade between transparent and opaque states, its patterns are transformed periodically by real-time weather from around the world.
How to Have an Idea
Category: Art
Where: Frank Chimero
Implementation: Napkin (?)
Date: 2010
A presentation, hand-drawn, in a "back of the napkin" style. It's packed, but clear, and effective.
Interesting quote from Chimero: Creative people romanticize mistakes and process. But there is no process if you don't start. No one crumples a blank sheet of paper.
Alex Trochut's Posters
Category: Art/Fonts/Graffiti
Where: Alext Trochut's Web Site, Barcelona, Spain
Implementation:
Date: 2010
3D Painting with the iPad
Category: Animation/Art/Algorithm
Where: BERG, London
Implementation: iPad + stop animation
Date: Sept. 2010
From berglondon.com: We’re working with Beeker Northam at Dentsu, using their strategy to explore how the media landscape is changing. From Beeker’s correspondence with us during development: “…what might a magical version of the future of media look like?” We [Dentsu] are interested in the future, but not so much in science fiction – more in possible or invisible magic.
We have chosen to interpret that brief by exploring how surfaces and screens look and work in the world. We’re finding playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.
Wheel Of Music
Category: Art/Music
Where: Wheelof.com
Implementation: NA
Date: 2006
From Krazydad.com: An early intuition about how to control total dynamics led me to activate all graphic elements through a motion function that advances each element differentially. For example, if one element were set to move at a given rate, the next element might be moved at two times that rate. Then the third would move at three times that rate and so on. Each element would move at a different rate and in a different direction within the field of action. So long as all elements obey a rule of direction and rate, and none drifts aimlessly or randomly, then pattern configurations form and reform. This is harmonic resonance, and it echoes musical harmony, stated in explicit terms. I tried this procedure in several films, and was gratified by the consistency of the confirmation it demonstrated. – John Whitney, “Digital Harmony”, pp. 38
Wanderword: German words adoption around the world
Category: Geographical/Art
Where: Golden Section Graphics
Implementation: NA
Date: 2008
From GoldenSectionGraphics.com: For the Goethe Institut, we designed a version in DIN A0 size (33.1 in × 46.8 in) of our graphic »German spoken«. But, instead of using the 700 words we processed in the earlier version for Vanity Fair (issue 11/2007), we used about 2,000 of 2,500 terms in this new king-sized »emigrated words« poster. The Institute collected them in an initiative from all over the world.
Graffiti + Visualization
Category: Art/Graffiti
Where: Staynice.nl, and Ulvenhout, Netherlands.
Implementation: NA
Date: 2010
As presented in DataVisualization.ch: The printed wall has been hand painted at the new fire department building in Ulvenhout, Breda (The Netherlands). The visualization shows this department’s actions of the last 10 years. The fire department is located right beside a highway. Many of the actions of the department take place right on that highway, like rescue missions for car accidents. Actions are represented by circles and located on the exact geographical position where the accident or fire happened. If you know the area you can clearly see the the form of the highway.
Sculpting Music by Nathalie Miebach
Category: Art
Where: Nathalie Miebach's page
Implementation: Basket weaving
Date: 2010
From nathaliemiebach.com: Recently, I have begun translating weather data collected in cities into musical scores, which are then translated into sculptures as well as being a source for collaboration with musicians. These pieces are not only devices that map meteorological conditions of a specific time and place, but are also functional musical scores to be played by musicians. While musicians have freedom to interpret, they are asked not to change the essential relationship of the notes to ensure that what is still heard is indeed the meteorological relationship of weather data.
Inception Time Line
Category: Art
Where: Appears in Flowing Data, which takes it from DeviantArt.com
Implementation: NA
Date: 2010
This is a time-line generated by for the movie Inception. Start at the bottom left, and follow the time-line of the movie in a counter-clockwise direction. The van falling off in the river is at the very end...
Another time line for the same movie can also be found on FlowingData.com.
Back of the Napkin Diagrams
Category: Art
Where: reported by FlowingData, and chartporn.org
Date: 2010
From FlowingData: Carl Richards, a financial planner and a regular on The New York Times' Bucks blog, uses graphs and diagrams to explain personal finance. And as you know, sketches are always twice as charming when they are on the back of a napkin. Together, the collection provides sound financial advice, so that you don't end up poor and bankrupt, chasing the next Google or investing in entertainment.
Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.
Category: Art (for lack of better categorization)
Where: Matt Might's Web site
Implementation: NA
Date:: 2010
From matt.might.net: Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
-- Matt Might
Icons of the Web
Category: Art
Where: NMap.org
Implementation: NMap Security Scanner
Date: 2010
The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. When both a bare domain name and its "www." counterpart used the same icon, only one of them was counted. The smallest icons--those corresponding to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach--are scaled to 16x16 pixels. The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and the whole diagram is 37,440 x 37,440 (1.4 gigapixels). Since your web browser would choke on that, we have created the interactive viewer below (click and drag to pan, double-click to zoom, or type in a site name to go right to it).
Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Category: Art, Music
Where: MotStudio
Implementation: NA
Date: 2010
From datavisualization.ch: lesquatrestacions is a graphic information system for visualizing the lead violin of Vivaldi’s masterpiece. The work consists of four posters, a set of stamps and the documentation of the system.
Sync Lost
Category: Art, Music
Where: 3bits Lab
Implementation: NA
Date: 2009
From 3bits.net: "SyncLost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds.
The project’s objective is to create an interface where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback. The choice is individual and leads to a collective consequence in the spatial visualization of information."
Just-Sam.com
Category: Art
Where: Netherlands
Implementation: NA
Date: 2005-2010
An illustration of the human body using the subway map structure as a support.
Clavilux 2000
Category: Art
Where: Germany
Implementation:
Date: Feb. 2009
From www.jonasheuer.de/: The visual concept of Clavilux 2000 is quite simple. For every note played on the keyboard a new visual element appears in form of a stripe, which follows in its dimensions, position and colour the way the particular key was stroke: The length and vertical position show the velocity, the stripe’s width reflects the length of each note.
By mapping the color wheel on the circle of fifths, the colours finally give the viewer and listener an impression of the harmonic relations. Notes belonging to one specific tonality always get colors from one specific area of the color wheel. Therefore each key gets it’s own color scheme and “wrong” notes stand out in contrasting colors. The more different tonalities a piece has, the more colorful the visualization will be."
8-Bit New Yor City
Category: Art
Where: Brett Camper, MIT grad
- Implementation
- a mixture of OpenStreeMap, CC-BY-SA, SQL/PostGIS, TileCache, and OpenLayers.
Date: 2010
From http://8bitnyc.com: "8-Bit NYC is an attempt to make the city feel foreign yet familiar, smashing together two culturally common models of space: the lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games, and the geographically accurate data that drives today's web maps and GPS navigation. I hope to evoke the same urge for exploration, abstract sense of scale, and perhaps most importantly unbounded excitement that many of us remember experiencing on the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Commodore 64, or any other number of 8-bit microcomputers. [...]"
Mouse Trails
Category: Art
Where: NA
Implementation: NA
Date: 2010-current
from the 2/16/2010 NYT articles by Nick Bilton Viewing the Mouse Tracks You Leave Behind: "If you’ve ever wondered about the flow of your mouse around your computer screen, a free downloadable application, called “mouse pointer track,” can help you follow these esoteric movements and turn them into a fascinating blur between art and information. The simple application was developed by Anatoly Zenkov, a Russian graphic designer and programmer, and has been downloaded tens of thousands of times since he first released it in late January this year."
Presentations with Prezi
Category: Art
Where: Budapest
Implementation: NA (probably Java or Flash)
Date: 2009-present
from http://prezi.com: Prezi is zooming sketches on a digital napkin. It's visualization and storytelling without slides.
Your ideas live on stage and on the web. Have you ever wondered about presenting your thoughts as free as they come? Ever got tired of creating a slideshow? It's been said, that the best innovations come from people who are unhappy with the tools they use. We realized that our ideas won't fit into slides anymore. Putting together creative thinking and technology expertise, we have created Prezi, a living presentation tool.
NeoFormix.com (2)
Category: Art
Where: NA
Implementation: misc
Date: 2008
A sample on the right of many visualizations from NeoFormix maintained by Jeff Clark. See also other entry on NeoFormix
Chris Jordan's Art (2)
See Chris Jordan's Art in the Algorithms section
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