Data Art
Finding the beauty in numbers.
857 empty desks on National Mall used to represent high school drop-outs
As part of their campaign to prioritize education and get presidential candidates talking…
Art using inlaid maps
Matthew Cusick uses maps as his brush and palette in a series of…
Tasty Tweets makes smoothies based on trending fruits
During a one-week visualization course at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, Kat…
Typewriter installation remembers killed journalists
Julian Koschwitz uses a typewriter linked to data from the Committee to Protect…
Meshu makes physical objects with your location
Location data typically stays within the realm of online maps and digital check-ins,…
Relational ornaments
Gundega Strautmane, a Latvian textile artist and designer, visualizes social and physical networks…
The Descriptive Camera
The unassuming little Descriptive Camera made me rethink data. This project by Matt…
Stop motion music video
Music visualization with stop motion board games. You can’t go wrong.
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Mad Men as thousands download via bittorrent
The BitTorrent protocol lets groups of people download parts of a single file…
Generative art portrays beauty in movement
Heading towards the 2012 Olympics in London, Quayola and Memo Aktenvia translate athletic…
Geographic news coverage visualized
Kitchen Budapest explores local news coverage in Hungary with sound and a bubbling…
Your personal networks visualized as microbiological cells in Biologic
Data exists in digital form, on our computers and spreadsheets, but the exciting…
Data in a human context
Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows…
Tracking the grizzly bear in emotional interactive documentary
In a blend of data and storytelling, Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison dig…
Cinemetrics creates a visual fingerprint for movies
As we saw with movie barcodes, each film has a uniqueness that can…
Bach Cello Suites visualized
As a resident at Eyebeam, Alexander Chen visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s…
Smiley installation shows the mood of a city
Project Stimmungsgasometer (say what?) is a giant smiley face that changes based on…