So as of now I have direction but I am still unsure of many details.
What I know I want: to frequently gather data from some form of online blogging/journaling site (or several) and somehow create an ever-changing map of connections between the documentations of the masses.
What I don't know: what site I should use, what variables will determine the connection, and how I am going to display this map.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
communication
When i was in greece this summer, we had an assignment in which we journaled for 30 minutes about the experiences we had encountered thus far. Afterwards we were told to pick out specific key words throughout our journal entry and connect them using different colored lines, depending on the word and the relations to the other words. This exercise created a beautiful map across the page.
Some of the art I have seen in this class reminds me of this exercise. I very much like the idea of taking something that I would consider more organic, like creative writing, dissecting it and breaking it down to mere data, and then reverting these cold, lifeless variables back into something emotive.
Originally I thought to perhaps dissect some of my own writing and organize the data to visually document my thoughts. But I began to become much more intrigued with the idea of combining the writings of many. The idea of displaying visual connections of the masses became much more appealing and also seemed to be a better fit conceptually with this idea of a "map". Fortunately for me, my generation is obsessed with the frequent documentation and sharing of any thoughts, interests, beliefs, and feelings (facebook, myspace, twitter, fml, etc).
Some of the art I have seen in this class reminds me of this exercise. I very much like the idea of taking something that I would consider more organic, like creative writing, dissecting it and breaking it down to mere data, and then reverting these cold, lifeless variables back into something emotive.
Originally I thought to perhaps dissect some of my own writing and organize the data to visually document my thoughts. But I began to become much more intrigued with the idea of combining the writings of many. The idea of displaying visual connections of the masses became much more appealing and also seemed to be a better fit conceptually with this idea of a "map". Fortunately for me, my generation is obsessed with the frequent documentation and sharing of any thoughts, interests, beliefs, and feelings (facebook, myspace, twitter, fml, etc).
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Aaron Koblin Research
-MFA from the Department of Design|Media Arts at UCLA
-BA in Electronic Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Utilizing a background in the computer game industry
-led a course in game design for the web at UCLA
-working with data driven projects as a media designer, artist and researcher.
-currently working out of San Francisco, California
-creates software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data into artwork
-shown internationally
-part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
-part of Google's Creative Lab in San Francisco
-focused on creating and visualising human systems.
-transforms large abstract data sets into humanly contextualized information.
-hopes to raise at least as many questions as he answers.
-Aaron received the 1st. Place Science Visualization Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation
-undertaking visualization projects at MIT and Stanford Universities.
-Using information, data, code, systems (chem, bio, informatic, physicaal etc), he searches to bring out visualization and creation that relates to the network of humans and human interaction.
-Noticed early on in his academic career
-raised question and awareness about the connection between human system and art and design.
-His realizations and transformations are often beyond imaginable but are generally meaningful.
-Aaron has contributed to projects at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MIT, and Stanford University.
-In 2007 Koblin’s projects received wide exposure from appearing on ABC World News and the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, to receiving the First Place award for Science Visualization from the National Science Foundation.
-BA in Electronic Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Utilizing a background in the computer game industry
-led a course in game design for the web at UCLA
-working with data driven projects as a media designer, artist and researcher.
-currently working out of San Francisco, California
-creates software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data into artwork
-shown internationally
-part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
-part of Google's Creative Lab in San Francisco
-focused on creating and visualising human systems.
-transforms large abstract data sets into humanly contextualized information.
-hopes to raise at least as many questions as he answers.
-Aaron received the 1st. Place Science Visualization Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation
-undertaking visualization projects at MIT and Stanford Universities.
-Using information, data, code, systems (chem, bio, informatic, physicaal etc), he searches to bring out visualization and creation that relates to the network of humans and human interaction.
-Noticed early on in his academic career
-raised question and awareness about the connection between human system and art and design.
-His realizations and transformations are often beyond imaginable but are generally meaningful.
-Aaron has contributed to projects at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MIT, and Stanford University.
-In 2007 Koblin’s projects received wide exposure from appearing on ABC World News and the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, to receiving the First Place award for Science Visualization from the National Science Foundation.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Interests
truly struggling with ideas. BUT here are some things very vague ideas that have peaked my interest:
-time progression
-abstract mapping
artists we looked at that interest me:
-Aaron Koblin: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/
-DAIM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLikgptMD98&feature=related
-Golan Levin: http://www.flong.com/storage/experience/floccus/ http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/
-Ben Fry: http://benfry.com/valence/
-Marc Wattenberg: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=V&ms=false&sw=f&exact=false
-Alison Mealey: http://alison.organised.info/unrealart/processing/
-Shape of Song: http://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/mono.html
-time progression
-abstract mapping
artists we looked at that interest me:
-Aaron Koblin: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/
-DAIM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLikgptMD98&feature=related
-Golan Levin: http://www.flong.com/storage/experience/floccus/ http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/
-Ben Fry: http://benfry.com/valence/
-Marc Wattenberg: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=V&ms=false&sw=f&exact=false
-Alison Mealey: http://alison.organised.info/unrealart/processing/
-Shape of Song: http://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/mono.html
Monday, March 16, 2009
Requirements
Writing
-code sketches
-regular sketches
-influences
-300 words
Artist Presentation
-should influence conceptually and technically
-5 min
-show work
-describe their influences
-why was this artist chosen?
-extra credit by contacting artist personally rather than just researching
-super extra credit if you can get them to come visit
Code
-must be working by the time of final critique
-must be on website as well as burned to CD/DVD to turn in
-thoroughly commented
-response to the final project and critique posted on website
-code sketches
-regular sketches
-influences
-300 words
Artist Presentation
-should influence conceptually and technically
-5 min
-show work
-describe their influences
-why was this artist chosen?
-extra credit by contacting artist personally rather than just researching
-super extra credit if you can get them to come visit
Code
-must be working by the time of final critique
-must be on website as well as burned to CD/DVD to turn in
-thoroughly commented
-response to the final project and critique posted on website
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