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Data and the Arts: Media in the Information Age

Data and the Arts: Media in the Information Age . Day of Civic Hacking June 1-2, 2013. The Artist’s Role in the Datasphere. To interpret and criticize – data flows through the artist, who experiences it and synthesizes sub-rational conclusions.

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Data and the Arts: Media in the Information Age

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  1. Data and the Arts: Media in the Information Age Day of Civic Hacking June 1-2, 2013

  2. 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.

  3. 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)

  4. Specifically Government Data • The role of data in direct democracy. The Social Realism of Democracy.

  5. Exploring Data • Science: the Computer Science Viz Lab and RSMAS uses computer generated world to fly-by the fault under Port au Prince

  6. Exploring Data • The Viz Lab with Dept of Biology explores neuronal connections in a fly brain

  7. Experiencing Data • Making sensible the abstract Passionnement by Piotr Kowalski (frequency spectrum in contrast to meaning)

  8. Experiencing Data • Making visible the crisis of world population Population Cube by Piotr Kowalski

  9. The New Data Vernacular • Data is all around, it is part of our world Last Login by Mika Rosenberg,, collage with computer babble.

  10. The New Data Vernacular • Use of NASA data sets and NTSC distorted video Black Zero by Aldo Tambellinni at the Tate Modern

  11. Using Data • To make music, such as the FMS symphony

  12. Using Data • To make attractive and informative displays The D3.js library

  13. Data Is Reality • Real time financial data streams - data as a more real reality

  14. Data Shows Reality • Data from NASA – self-reflection on a greater reality too distant to perceive directly

  15. Data Decides Reality • Trial transcripts – traces in the sand of human aspiration and institutions The Brancusi Trial

  16. Conclusion • Data/Computation Duality; the Media Reality Media Burn by Ant Farm

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