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…

Bird flight paths

Dennis Hlynsky, an artist and a professor at the Rhode Island School of…

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.…

Roomba traces

We’ve seen what happens when you turn on a Roomba and track its…

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…