Media Arts and Technology

Title: Why Occupy: Mining the emotional web Short description abstract: How can visualization criticism be used to analyze data visualization as an art form? Description: Robert Kosara's essay, In Visualization Criticism – The Missing Link Between Information Visualization and Art and Lev Manovich's...

For the final project, I will attempt to show the tipping point or 100th monkey concept as it relates to Occupy Wall Street. I will use Twitter's API to search for an increase in terms like #OWS, #Occupy Wall Street, and #wearethe99%, etc. from mid-September to the present day. Then, I will use Proc...

This code is a visualization of the number of times books with titles including "oil" and "water" are checked out per month. The bars and colors overlap to mimic oil and water and the size of the bar is determined by the *count, or number of times the book is checked out every month. The text labels...

Lev Manovich's Cultural Analytics reminds me of two projects, both distinct from each other: 1) A Teddy Bear Exhibit by Ydessa Hendeles http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/11432/partners-the-teddy-bear-project-by-ydessa-hendeles-at-gwangju-art-biennale-2010.html In this exhibition, Ydessa c...

Question: How do the resources of the Seattle Public Library reflect the increase and popularity of DIY sustainable practices from 2006-2010? Query: select title , count(*) from transactionsall where title like '%permaculture%' AND deweyClass >= 600 AND deweyClass < 700 group by title order by count...

In the “Thinking About Data” section of Ben Fry’s Visualizing Data, he mentions AOL’s release of “randomized” search queries of its users. He does this to point out that we rarely think about the immense amount of information that can be gleaned from data. Immediately, I thought of a project by Sand...