Tuesday, June 02. 2009
BEYOND KIOSK - MODES OF MULTIPLICATION
Ce projet itinérant, initié par Christoph Keller, éditeur et designer, est une exposition consacrée à l’édition indépendante en art contemporain, design et graphisme. Il prolonge le projet Kiosk, une archive évolutive itinérante comportant à ce jour plus de 6000 publications, livres d’artistes, magazines, vidéos et supports audio liés à l’art contemporain, qui a voyagé depuis 2001 dans plus de vingt institutions à travers le monde.
Pour chaque présentation de Beyond Kiosk, la mise en espace de l’exposition est confiée à un artiste ou un designer différent. Mudam a invité le designer anglais Martino Gamper à imaginer le dispositif de présentation.
MUDAM, Luxembourg
Until september 13 2009
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Via ManyStuff
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Want to get a visual high today? The infographic masterpiece Random Walk [random-walk.com] ask the question "What does Randomness Look Like?" It attempts to give the answer(s) by showing the mysterious interactions of chaos and the order in randomness by simulating randomness in visualizations which are easy to understand.
The portfolio webpage contains a collection of zoomable illustrations, with detailed explanations plus summary captions in the yellow speech balloons on the right. Experimental visualized datasets include the constant number pi, the so-called Poisson distribution, the empirical results behind the normal distribution, the distribution of prime numbers, the first-digit law also called Benford's Law, the surface area calculation Monte Carlo Method, the Law of Large Numbers, an atom's or molecule's Brownian Motion, an atom's Half Life, the chaotic motion of a double pendulum, pseudo random number generation, and many more.
The project's author, Daniel A. Becker, adds this project to an already impressive portfolio, including the previously posted Barcode Plantage and the for-the-infosthetics-addict still unknown Visual DNA (discover!).
Based on these works, I think we certainly will see and hear more from him in the future. Do you agree?
Thnkx Daniel.
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Via Information aesthetics
Wednesday, May 20. 2009
Ben Fry and Phyllotaxis recently released this impressive online visualization that shows the statistical connections between related medical conditions. The Health Visualizer [ge.com] focuses on the major health issues facing Americans today, by allowing users to compare demographics (i.e. gender, age), risk factors (i.e. body mass index, smoking), diseases and conditions (i.e. diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke).
While the visual and the animations seem simple at first sight, the real strength lies in empowering users to explore the many (often causal) relationships between different sets of statistical data in an intuitive way.
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Via Information aethetics
Personal comment:
Un site et une application (probablement réalisée avec Processing, du fait qu'il s'agisse du designer Ben Fry) en rapport avec des données sur la santé aux Etats-Unis (dont la cigarette). Le site est relativement simple mais l'application bien faite. Un graphisme d'information.
Friday, May 01. 2009
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Spamghetto [todo.to.it] is a spam-based wall covering shown at the Design Crisis exhibition in Torino, Italy, based on up to 2000 different junk-mail subjects scraped from Gmail mailboxes. With the crisis happening, the aim of the project is to recycle in order to turn the ugly spam into a beautiful wallpaper, before it is too late: "someday a brilliant scientist will find the definitive solution to eradicate from the web the bittersweet pleasure of spam. Spamghetto is not like your grandma's wallpaper."
The wallpaper is generated using a generative software, so that the design can adapt to the specific dimensions of the space.
So far, we had wallpapers made out of New York Times Headlines, French phrases, and Nasdaq stock quotes.
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From the site of ToDo designers
"Everyday our mailboxes are flooded with unsolicited offers of porn material, pirate software, viagra, illegal financial services and advice on women seduction: if this is annoying for the average user, we really love it. A quick glance at the spam mailbox always provides fresh inspiration: bizarre subjects guides us in the quest for the definitive answer to fundamental humans' problems. But the crisis is striking and we must recycle. So, instead of sweeping spam under the carpet, we decided to save some junk-mail in order to turn it into a wallpaper for your house before it's too late: someday a brilliant scientist will find the definitive solution to eradicate from the web the bittersweet pleasure of spam. Spamghetto is not like your grandma's wallpaper. If you provide us with your room's dimensions, we can, with our generative software, produce a design that wraps and folds around all the objects that sit on the on the wall's surface."
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Personal comment:
La réutilisation du spam sous forme de patterns et papier peint partiellement génératif. Les travaux de l'agence ToDo basée à Turin, anciens étudiants d'IVREA, proposent des installations génératives ou interactives ludiques.
Monday, April 20. 2009
A disclaimer is in order: The following post is not original content, rather it is a collection of links provided by various people on a private mailing list. The initial request (from Memo Akten) was for “really hot data visualization”, and the following suggestions were made by some fairly knowledgeable people.
They are presented here as an unedited list of links, they are listed in the order they appeared on the list. Some are fairly new projects while others are well-known canonical works. Two new favorites are shown above, namely Social Collider and Synchronous Objects.
Some pseudo-random Info Viz links
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Via Generator.X
Personal comment:
Marius Watz, auteur du blog Generator.X (generative design) donne ici quelques liens et ressources vers des designers attachés aux questions de visualisation d'informations.
Wednesday, April 01. 2009
Via WMMNA
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The first day of Postopolis is over. It went way better than i expected (and expectations were high.) We are on the rooftop of The Standard hotel which means looking at each other with a smug smile on our face that says "we're so lucky to be here". Problem is that the smile literally freezes as soon as the sun goes down: it gets cold beyond my worst nightmare of a night sleeping rough in Tobolsk (only slightly kidding here.) Bring your blanket and moon boots tonight or follow us on the webcast! Don't expect full reports as days are pretty busy but here are a few highlights of Day One on Postopolis planet:
I had the immense pleasure of kicking off the series of talks by introducing Fritz Haeg (how can anyone be both laid-back and so stylish?) whom i had invited precisely for his dedication to engage with everything but architecture. You might remember that i had interviewed him briefly two years ago about Edible Estates, a project that challenges the lawn, this "carpet of conformity", by inviting families to replace their front lawn with food-producing vegetable gardens. Fritz discussed Edible Estates (look out for his next garden in New York in June), gave an overview of the performances and various education activities he organizes but he also explained us briefly another of his projects: Animal Estates.
Launched at the 2008 Whitney Biennial, the project that attempts to integrate animals in our landscape, in particular indigenous species that have disappeared because of human habitats and settlements. The customized dwellings are designed to encourage the resettlement of wildlife in urban neighbourhoods.
Next came a presentation of the work of experimental architecture group fabric by Patrick Keller who proved once again that Swiss architecture rocks (check out this other talk by his colleague Christophe Guignard) and a live interview of Yo-Ichiro Hakomori of wHY Architecture by the two David from ArchDaily & Plataforma Arquitectura. Been very impressed by the thought-provoking and quiet answers of the Americano-Japanese architect and blown away by the picture of one of the most striking building he designed: Royal/T, LA's first Japanese-style cosplay café.
Bryan from Subtopia had had the great idea to invite Michael Dear Professor of Geography, USC and author of the book Postborder City (must get my hands on that one asap). A few noteworthy observation Dear made: the future of the city is already at work in L.A., there is no urban center, just a big sprawl and several urban centers here and there, the population is in majority latino; even if the U.S. managed to close their borders, the latininization of the country would still be unstoppable because of natural birth; diversity is the strongest feature of this society and we should embrace it instead of looking for questionable ways to avoid it; the border is everywhere we go, that's the frontera portatil, the border to go, etc.
Geoff presenting Jeffrey Inaba (photo Storefront)
Geoff Manaugh invited Jeffrey Inaba who commented the shift architects must face because of the current crisis: going from private commissions to public ones, accepting a part of blame for the ambitions of their previous clients and reassessing the actions and strategies to undertake in this new climate. Sounds heavy? The talk was actually very witty, not particularly on the optimistic side but still energizing and sprinkled with ironic observations that went from gums on the pavement to extreme temperatures in Kazakhstan.
Image Storefront
Image on homepage: Postopolis flickr set by Storefront for art and architecture.
Tuesday, March 10. 2009
This suit allows one ardent fan to distinguish themselves from the crowd at film premieres. Comprised of a projector, speakers and a light system, controlled by an portable media player, the suits emits hysterical screams louder than the standard fan collective. As the target star approaches confessed messages are projected. When the wearer gets the attention from the object of their devotion, the suit rejoices by bursting into a climatic display continue
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Via WMMNA
Personal comment:
Sorte d'habit pour activiste médiatique. Homme/Femme sandwich revisité/e façon début de XXIème.
Monday, March 02. 2009
Pastiche [christianmarcschmidt.com] is a (downloadable) dynamic data visualization that maps keywords from blog articles to the New York neighborhoods they are written in reference to, geographically positioned in a navigable, spatial view. Keywords are assigned based on relevance and recency, surrounding their corresponding neighborhoods. The result is a dynamically changing description of the city, formed around individual experiences and perspectives.
Reminds me of the "typographic city" music video "The Child".
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Via Information Aesthetics
Personal comment:
Le champ grandissant de la visualisation de données dynamique, qui consite souvent en des processus de "mapping" ou de "mashup" de données hétérogènes. Ici un travail entre la cartographie, l'architecture, l'écriture, les blogs et l'analyse de données. Le tout pouvant révéler des couches "cachées" de récits sur la ville et ses quartiers.
Friday, February 06. 2009
Glocal [glocal.ca] (short for global + local) is an "immense, collaborative and multifaceted" digital art project that examines the making, sharing and exhibiting of digital images. Thousands of individuals, including artists, non-artists and youth, are invited to participate to collaborate in the making of what promises to be Canada's largest "contributive" digital artwork.
In the context of the Glocal Project, Digital Artist Jer Thorp has produced two abstract search tools to visually navigate through Glocal's large database of photos. The Glocal Similarity Map Engine shows the compositional similarity between a particular image (shown in the center) and other images in the Glocal Pool. The Glocal Image Breeder is an interactive tool that allows users to breed images, and explore 'children' that may contain common elements from both images.
Via Visual Complexity.
Personal comment:
Dans la lignée des sites communautaires, le retour des oeuvres/création collectives.
Thursday, January 15. 2009
Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008
By Really Interesting Group ( Russell Davies and Ben Terrett )
“We’ve collected some things from the internet we thought would work well on paper and we’ve made it into a newspaper…”
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Via Manystuff
Personal comment:
Beware what you write on the net, it might end in your favourite newspaper!
Un projet de designer qui signale les liens toujours plus entremêlés entre print et web ou mobile web. Même si ici il s'agit d'un journal pour réseau limité, on peut très bien entrevoir le moment ou cela pourrait se développer à une échelle plus large et où le contenu d'un journal serait majoritairement créé par ses lecteurs...
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