Art. Music. Ideas 11-14th May, Manchester UK. With an Art exhibition featuring Bestario see here http://vism.ag/55, the well known Nicholas Feltron see here http://vism.ag/3e, Mit project called Borderline, BBC Data Art project, Wilderness Downtown by Chris Milk & Aaron Koblin and what intirgues me and is a must to see is A Duet of Blizzards and Hurricanes Noel II by Nathalie Miebach.
Not only is there the art on show of data and mapping, you have the conference. Some intriguuing talks with Linked Data / LInked Stories sounding good as they look at data becoming more accessible everyday. Icononomical Data and Infographics looks good from icononomical founders. The internet of things that no longer exists, looking at the 24/7 of devices continuously connected to the internet in some way. Emotional Computing, Hacking Culture Urban Friction - Interfacing with the city. On the 14th May Saturday a free confrence with open data hack and the manchester creative co-op.
My budget couldnt stretch to all these but they certainly intrigue me. A zine exhibition to see and then the music. I'll be attending.
Published on 2011/04/29 10:59 pm.
Filed under: coding, collaborative, data, device, festival, Interactive Mapping, technology, web 2.0 Tags: festival
I think this was a good discussion talking about language and communicating without phonetics touching on quite a few forms of language and creativity. This
was my thoughts below to this question.
Is it possible real ideographic way of communicate ideas? that is think, communicate and learn without phonetic chains? New era challenge require a more rapid and easy way of thinking.
My thoughts, love the discussion:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=1782421&type=member&item=10926482
Susan Kare designed the trash can, apologies not checking who, someone mentioned basing language on gesture and I like the term grant put iconic physiology I
think it was, still needs to be learned like phonetics. but she made the smiling face on load up of the Mac in 84'
W
hen I was reading, I came across that language needed to search for the strongest metaphor (object) to relate meaning like an ideogram (pg 28-29 in my writings link below). But someone said they try to unlearn what they know and think of objects without words, I try it too. led me into representing objects through shapes, silhouettes. I also liked the story that a guy shuts his eyes, similar to Claude Heath and tries to draw the world, like Betty Edwards I think it was, drawing on the left side. altering our perception, being creative, looking at line drawings upside down for the first time you see it challenges you to work out what it is, you just copy it. not sure how the advance to not using phonetics. unlearning advances the creativity and ultimately the imagining of new ways I guess.
L
ogos do it, icons for blogger, wordpress (ok still letters), delicious, squidoo, digg (the people) these are universal, they're most widely seen (internet).
B
rands do it, coca cola (letters I know).
I'm sure its got to involve more senses other than sight to be more widely applicable without phonetics. brail and tactility, still represent a letter in the alphabet though I think. But I like that the grid comes into it, all characters equal in size, maybe not area but equal height and relative width.
Similar
to time dimension brought into sound with Morse
code again representing letters. they look good graphically, cant remember the artist-designer
S
till, a group of people would need to agree to discerned representations, otherwise how can they communicate complex thought like we're doing here?
http://www.visualisationmagazine.com/dissertation.htm
pg 28-29 about.
Please share you thoughts, links.
Published on 2010/09/11 10:40 pm.
Filed under: coding, communication, language, learn, writing Tags: Amateur, Amp, Apologies, Cdata, Creativity, Eath, Follower, Followers, Gesture, language, Line Drawings, Linguistics, Metaphor, Morse code, New Era, New Ways, perception, Phonetics, Physiology, Radio, Recreation, Shapes, Silhouettes, Smiling Face, Social Sciences, Type Member, Visual Communication
instantiating
computation : tom white
exploring visual representations of different models of computation that
lend themselves to direct manipulation in order to better understand and
construct information spaces
codefocus
: jared schiffman
reeavaluating the process of writing programs and the visual environment
in which this activity takes place. to make writing and reading code
more inuitive through an enhanced visual infrastructure
anemone
(live version) : ben fry
using the process of organic information design to visualize the
changing structure of a web site, juxtaposed with usage information
genomic
cartography : ben fry
a series of experiments combining visualization and genomics.
expressing qualitative features of the human genome through advanced
visual representations.
These are some of the projects that I will certainly try to have a deeper
reader about from the aesthetics and computation group featuring john maeda and
ben fry. I was aware of the project below as most people are,
processing :
ben fry and casey reas
processing is an environment for learning the fundamentals of computer
programming within the context of the electronic arts. it is an electronic
sketchbook for developing ideas. processing is an open project initiated
by ben fry and casey reas, of the interaction design institute ivrea.A very good group that i will certainly follow to keep
up-to-date as they try to explore language, mapping (space), communication.
Truly creative projects that I must have a good read, may just have to blog
individually upon further inspection. I found this group through http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/serialconsign/~3/PKLFOJPUrDM/information-visualization-and-interface-culture with a review of a chapter written by greg smith for Handbook of Research on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics which will be released
sometime in the next several weeks.
Published on 2009/04/25 9:17 pm.
Filed under: cartography, coding, communication, creative, data, design, education, interpret, language, pattern, visual thinking, visualisation, writing
Not sure if harmoniser is a word, but i like that this tool lets you create a colour harmony form just point and click in the buttons under the wheel
mono, ocntrast, triadic, tetrad, analogical
Faber Birrren would love this, just like j m brockman would have loved
grid-designer-tool.
Creating instant colour hamrines for you in a second wasn't enough you can decide upon the subtle nuances of the triad, tetrad and analogical with the degrees between,
Will have to try see version 3 as it isn't supported on IE6 but version 2 is supported on IE6 which is the one shown.
I have seen other good colour pickers that give a scheme and the hex codes but the harmony buttons and subtle nuances so easily manipulable, god this is good, easy, simple.
Published on 2009/03/24 12:35 am.
Filed under: aesthetic, coding, colour, creative, design, dynamic, harmony, playful, tool
Brilliant. i love web tool's that save a large amount of time coding and remembering attributes and the syntax <> halb < /h2 > etc... Well josef muller brockmann of the digital age eat your heart out.
1st use your mouse and click increase decrease etc to create the layout you desire
2nd decide upon your font...
with helvetica available... although i am not sure how wide spread helvetica comes with systems, does on macs... can get a pc version from http://graphicallyinspired.blogspot.com there is a link there to helevetica free for download.
3rd copy paste the generated css style sheet, or just the basic html to squeeze in between your BODY tags somewhere.
http://grid.mindplay.dk
thankyou Rasmus Schultz
found in march 08 creative review
Published on 2009/02/20 10:09 pm.
Filed under: architecture, brockmann, clear, coding, design, form, simple, tool, ways of working, websites
