Data Art
Finding the beauty in numbers.
Before and after lot vacancy
Justin Blinder used New York’s city planning dataset and Google Streetview for a…
An exploration of selfies
Selfiecity, from Lev Manovich, Moritz Stefaner, and a small group of analysts and…
What a computer sees while watching movies
Benjamin Grosser visualized how computers “watch” movies through vision algorithms and artificial intelligence…
Highway traffic reorganized by color
In the video above, filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker reorganized midday traffic by color. No…
Your life in jellybeans
Using the effective jellybean method, Ze Frank describes the finite time we have.…
Beauty of mathematics
Betrand Russell: “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty —…
Impressive exploration of projection mapping
Projection mapping is the art of using physical objects as display surfaces and…
Treemap art
Ben Shneiderman invented the treemap in the 1990s to visualize the hierarchical contents…
Beach Boys vocals visualized
Alexander Chen visualized “You Still Believe in Me” by the Beach Boys.
This…
Listening to Zen-like Wikipedia edits
It’s easy to think of online activity as a whirlwind of chatter and…
A study of quantified emotion
Mike Pelletier experimented with quantified emotion in his piece Parametric Expression. This is…
Physics of love
Louise Ma, along with Chris Parker and Lola Kalman, started a six-part short…
GPS shoes show you the way home
Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy clicks her heels to get…
Movie sounds
Moviesound is a goofy yet charming look at sounds in movies. Imagine sound…
Sensory augmentation device
We’ve seen plenty of augmented reality where you put on some digitally-enabled glasses…
Putting today into perspective
When you focus on all the small events and decisions that happen throughout…