Tag Archives: Visualization

Data visualization and story telling

Joris Pekel | 06 May 2011, 11:08 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

For as long as people have been around, the have used stories to share information, cultural values and experience. Most of the times this is done orally, but even in ancient times, mankind created drawings to visualize their information. With the invention of the printing press, new possibilities arose to share a story, either verbal or with drawings. Until today,…

A Question of Data/Art

Fenneke Mink | 04 May 2011, 11:31 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

A question of data/art*

*delete as necessary

A  well known problem of data visualization is according to Lev Manovich that “people intuitively identify visualizations as infovis even though they consist not from vector elements but from media text or images”. I state that within data art this problem does not persist since data art is fundamentally not about…

Mondrian in the age of Information Visualization.

Fenneke Mink | 20 April 2011, 12:48 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) started painting his artworks in the style of the Amsterdam Academy. He made dark realistic landscapes and later in his carer he painted more lighter paintings when he evolved towards De Stijl.  From the year 1911 in Paris he became influenced by the styles of symbolism and cubism. Here he comes…

Researching online music networking in the Web 2.0 era: Soundcloud and the demise of MySpace

Hans Terpstra | 28 September 2010, 4:37 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

MySpace passed on?
With the current steady rise of social networking sites, it is by all means an important question to ask how to research these in the field of new media studies. Furthermore, a lot of these sites offer services destined for a particular group of users. Of course when it only concerns interests like geology or animals, one can join…

Visualizing for different purposes

Sander Leegwater | 18 May 2010, 11:59 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

In my previous blogpost, I finished with the statement that there are many other authors (besides Manuel Lima) that talk about artistic ways of information visualization and the distinctions these cultural practices have from traditional (conventional academic) information visualization. Kosara wrote the article ‘Visualization criticism – the missing link between information visualization and art.’ In this he introduces the notions of pragmatic and artistic visualization to delineate between two very different approaches within the general field of visualization.

The Building Blocks of Information Visualization

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 03 October 2008, 12:46 am | tags: , , , ,

Thursday Christian Behrens and Yuri Engelhardt did a workshop on the Universiteit van Amsterdam on the building blocks of information visualization. Christian Behrens created out of his master thesis on designing pattern taxonomy for the field of data visualization and information design, a website which is a pattern browser that lets the user interactively search for pattern components that fit best…

PICNIC 08 – All Media

Annewil Neervens | 25 September 2008, 10:01 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

Today’s themes in the E-Art Dome, presented by Virtueel Platform, are ecology, online life/social networking and mobility. The second presentation of the day is All Media, by Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort, which definitely fits those descriptions. Koert van Mensvoort starts off his presentation with a video of a bird making incredible sounds, some sounding not unlike a car alarm. He stresses that this video ‘is not media art, it’s an actual bird’. Next, is ‘the biggest visual power show’, an intellectual show that’s posed as a visionary statement, where the next nature is presented. Meaning that nature is increasingly controlled by man. Van Mensvoort calls this ‘a culturally emerged nature.’