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15/04/2013 / Cinder, iPhone

Created by Matthieu Savary, Pixel is Data is not your ordinary photography app for the iOS. Instead of dealing with pixels as you'd expect, all in order to represent the scene you have just photographed, Pixel is Data uses the image data and shows ...
    Speculative Sea Levels copy

11/04/2013 / Mac, Processing, Windows

Created by Benedikt Groß, Speculative Sea Level Explorer is an application made using Processing that explores the possible effects flooding should the sea levels change as a result of global warming. The software also allows you to reverse the scenario, create dry land, go ...
    vtol_financial_risks_03 copy

11/04/2013 / Other, Sound

Created by Dmitry Morozov (::vtol::), 'Financial Risks' is a project designed to present an ironical viewpoint on encoded wallets as a data input interface which invites to overcome fear of impossibility to control spread of confidential information for the sake of curiosity of interaction ...
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13/03/2013 / Arduino, Objects

Created by Tom Schofield, Neurotic Armageddon Indicator (NAI) is an installation artwork which visualises the ‘Doomsday Clock’, a symbolic clock maintained by an academic journal since 1947, ‘The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’. The Doomsday Clock represents the proximity to armageddon expressed as ...
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08/03/2013 / Jobs-Archive

Company: The Open Data Institute Location:  London, UK Type: Full-Time Category: Interaction Designer Description Data Visualiser Shoreditch / c£55k The Open Data Institute will catalyse the evolution of an open data culture to create economic, environmental, and social value. It will unlock supply, generate demand, create and disseminate knowledge to ...
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06/03/2013 / Events, Review

Free Speech for Whom Panel with Danah Boyd, Adrian Chen, and Zeynep Tufecki Photo Credit: Aaron Thompson A strangeness abounds when people are asked to theorize and elucidate something so untethered and rhizomatic as the Internet. At its basic structure, networks connect ...
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04/01/2013 / Arduino, openFrameworks

Created by Mithru Vigneshwara, Aleph of Emotions is an interactive object that allows users to view worldwide emotions collected from tweets collected over 35 days in 2012. Using openFrameworks, Arduino, GPS module and a smart phone (Samsung device in video, iPod Touch ...
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07/12/2012 / Javascript

Every Day Of My Life is a visualization of Marcin Ignac's computer usage statistics from the last 2.5 years and presented at the Click festival in Helsingør. Each line represents one day and each colorful block is the most ...
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31/10/2012 / Arduino, Processing

Created by David Bowen, Underwater is an installation created for INTERIEUR 2012.  It uses a Microsoft Kinect and Processing to collected real-time surface data from moving wave patterns and translates them into this large scale installation comprised of hundreds of servo-motors controlling each point of ...
    Facebook Demetricator 01 copy

22/10/2012 / Javascript

The use of self-tracking apps and devices is now so widespread that it is easy to overlook how much our thinking about 'personal analytics' is rooted in social web services. Urbana-Champaign-based media artist Benjamin Grosser's most recent project, Facebook Demetricator, ...
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01/10/2012 / Featured, Javascript

Italian author and meta-fabelist Italo Calvino arranged a grid of tarot cards as an engine to propel his 1973 novel The Castle of Crossed Destinies. The interwoven lines and columns of this grid were used by a narrator to reconstruct the ...
    Brian House – Forty-Eight to Sixteen

24/09/2012 / Sound

Scat vocalist Cab Calloway once claimed that when he walked down eighth avenue, he "saw rhythms" rather than the cityscape or bustling sidewalk. This past summer, fellow New York City explorer Brian House prototyped an elaborate workflow for sonifying a ...
    emoto_installation_10 copy

21/09/2012 / Objects, Other, Processing

Back in July, Studio NAND with Moritz Stefaner and Drew Hemment created emoto, an online web application that captured and visualised the excitement around the Olympic Games in London. The project moved from real-time (see our post) to ”Archive” data sculpture which is now on display at ...
    McLaren_p12_teaser_01 copy
McLaren approached MarshmallowLaserFeast for a teaser for the launch of their new car, the P12. Initially the job revolved around projection mapping, to project on (a model of) the car, something the MLF team wanted to avoid. Working directly with the ...
    Above-The-Cloud_01 copy

22/08/2012 / Featured, Objects, WebApp

Created by Boris Meister at ECAL, Above the Cloud is an atlas about social networks archeology, death and digital marks left in distress on the internet. Boris attempts to present the complex subject and, above all, explain it by creating an object - book, ...
    nathaliemiebach_00 copy

10/08/2012 / Events, Featured, Theory

Visualizations are created to make data more legible. They are intended to give us a neutral portrait, so to speak, of how collections of data relate to each other. In so doing, they make information accessible to us that would ...
    Constructed Land

08/08/2012 / Environment, Review

Constructed Land is a multi-format exhibition that meticulously catalogues a two year/65,000 image archive of photographs scraped from the website of a weather station based in Kimmirut, Nunavut (Northern Canada). Mounted at Toronto's InterAccess this past spring, the exhibition is comprised ...
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27/07/2012 / Javascript

The emoto project captures and visualises the excitement around the Olympic Games in London 2012. The web application moves from real-time (web-based visualisation and mobile app you can try now) to "Echo" (sensory installation, during the Paralympics) to "Archive" (data sculpture, at the Cultural Olympiad ...
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