Data and the Arts: Media in the Information Age
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Data and the Arts: Media in the Information Age
Day of Civic HackingJune 1-2, 2013
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The Artist’s Role in the Datasphere
• To interpret and criticize – data flows through the artist, who experiences it and synthesizes sub-rational conclusions.
• To enlist the role of the senses – data is made visible or audible, to explore and understand.
• To evangelize data uses – art is propaganda, art pre-visualizes the future.
• To please – art’s domain is the aesthetic and emotional. To make pretty stuff.
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How Data is Used Artistically
• Raw material for unrelated outcomes – algorithmic art
• The central object of study – visualization methods, or reinterpretation to make direct
• A reflection of distant realities to re-experience - real-time feeds, open API’s (think cubism or pointillism)
• The fabric for reality’s contextual clothing– (data is somehow the subject matter)
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Specifically Government Data
• The role of data in direct democracy. The Social Realism of Democracy.
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Exploring Data
• Science: the Computer Science Viz Lab and RSMAS uses computer generated world to fly-by the fault under Port au Prince
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Exploring Data
• The Viz Lab with Dept of Biology explores neuronal connections in a fly brain
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Experiencing Data
• Making sensible the abstract Passionnement by Piotr Kowalski (frequency spectrum in contrast to meaning)
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Experiencing Data
• Making visible the crisis of world population Population Cube by Piotr Kowalski
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The New Data Vernacular
• Data is all around, it is part of our world Last Login by Mika Rosenberg,, collage with computer babble.
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The New Data Vernacular
• Use of NASA data sets and NTSC distorted video Black Zero by Aldo Tambellinni at the Tate Modern
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Using Data
• To make music, such as the FMS symphony
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Using Data
• To make attractive and informative displays The D3.js library
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Data Is Reality
• Real time financial data streams - data as a more real reality
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Data Shows Reality
• Data from NASA – self-reflection on a greater reality too distant to perceive directly
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Data Decides Reality
• Trial transcripts – traces in the sand of human aspiration and institutions The Brancusi Trial
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Conclusion
• Data/Computation Duality; the Media Reality Media Burn by Ant Farm