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A new way of looking at the world

By Manav Tanneeru, CNN

November 2, 2009 3:27 p.m. EST

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• New tools are making it easier to see and analyze complex data
• Cheaper technology and digital data are leading to innovations
• Data ranges from statistics to Facebook and Twitter posts
• Sophisticated visualizations are also appearing on mobile phones

(CNN) -- What's the first thing that goes through your mind when someone says the word 'data'?
For many of us, the first image is line graphs, pie charts and spreadsheets with columns and rows full of numbers that leave you bleary-eyed and a bit dazed.

But what if someone were to say data can also mean what you post on Facebook and Twitter, the ratings you gave a restaurant, the photos you uploaded to Flickr or even, perhaps, what you feel.
A bit of a reach? Not anymore.

An emerging set of tools is making it easier than ever to track and compile all sorts of 'data' and display it in a way that's relatively easy to understand.

You can now point your mobile phone at a street and instantly get ratings for restaurants. Or type in your address and find reports of crimes that may have occurred in your neighborhood. It's even possible to track emotions on a national and global scale.

'Specialists from scientists to accountants have been dealing with data for decades,' said Martin Wattenberg, a researcher at IBM's Center for Social Software. 'What's new is that there's a whole lot more data of relevance to consumers. 'At the same time, people are generating a whole lot of data themselves.'

There are several reasons why we're seeing more data visualization in popular culture and why it's becoming simpler and more innovative, experts say.



RESOURCES

Links to some of the projects, Web sites and people discussed in this article and gallery:

-- Bruce Mau Design
-- Ben Fry's All Streets map
-- Ben Fry's Darwin project
-- City Sense
-- David McCandless
-- EveryBlock
-- Many Eyes
-- Nathan Yau's Wal-Mart map
-- Oakland Crime Spotting
-- Pastiche
-- Web Trend map
-- Yelp
-- Your Flowing Data

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Venus and Adonis Word, Image, Text: Studies in literary and Visual culture: Edited by Shormishtha Panja, Shirshendu Chakrabarti and Christel R. Devadawson, Orient, Rs 445 There has always been a close relationship between literature and the visual arts — a relationship not well explored. The editors of Word, Image, Text: Studies in Literary and Visual Culture deserve praise for venturing into new areas, for extending the study of literature beyond the written word and to the image — that in painting and sculpture. The four sections in the book, “The Renaissance in Europe”, “Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”, “The Indian subcontinent” and “Art and Philosophy” put together 13 articles that explore the close relationship between the written word and art at different points of time as well as in different locations. The book encompasses “…not only the literature and art of Europe from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries”, but also “…includes an examination of the art and literature of the Indian sub-continent”, to quote from the preface. The area covered by the book is vast, but within that area it takes up selective topics. The first section on Renaissance in Europe is this reviewer’s favourite, as it takes up a period marvellously rich in all the arts — a richness that the articles succeed in conveying. Shormishtha Panja sensitively compares Shakespeare’s word picture in “Venus and Adonis” to Titian’s paintings, Venus of Urbino and Venus and Adonis, as well as to Giorgione’s Dresden Venus. She also compares Shakespeare’s poem, The Rape of Lucrece, to Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia, and to other contemporary representations of the poem. The comparison is enhanced by the photographs of some of the paintings taken up in the book. Without the illustrations, the representation would not have been satisfactory. The second section focuses on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe. The neo-classical age was marked by a response divided between nostalgia and hope, between idealism and realism. The juxtaposition of patrician and plebeian perspectives led to the coining of the phrase, “the world of coffee and the world of gin”, which indicated the literary, cultural and aesthetic divide of the age. One would have liked the introduction to this section and the last section, “Art and Philosophy”, to be a little more elaborate. The section on the Indian subcontinent is different from the first two sections. To quote from the introduction to this section, “South Asia is presented here as a continuing cultural space despite wild discontinuities of time.” John Lockwood Kipling’s illustrations of India are taken up by Christel Devadawson with a few accompanying visuals. It is a very interesting article in an age when Rudyard Kipling and his characters have regained popularity. This section also has an article titled “Representations of Nature and Time in south Asian Sculpture: Lord Gommateshwara and the Fasting Buddha”. The writer, Vincent Villafranca, is a sculptor, and one finds his perspective on Indian sculpture interesting. The interrelationship between literary and visual forms of autobiography is taken up by Loris Button, a practising artist, in the concluding section on art and philosophy. He finds that the written language is a more dominant discourse. He provides a visual response in a series of self portraits, titled Facing Time. He says, “Facing Time can be seen as a visual response to the issue of describing identity in contemporary culture by the means of using physiognomy…” One remembers the self portraits by Rabindranath Tagore.The book is very readable and thought provoking. It should be of interest to students of literature and to lay readers.

PURABI PANWAR

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Kritikos: an international and interdisciplinary journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image

an international and interdisciplinary journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image

Volume 6, September-October-November 2009, ISSN 1552-5112

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September-October-November-2009

Modernist Asylum Art and the Contemporary Consideration of Art...(g.coulter)

Kritikos TV: Kucinich and Nader on H.R. 3962...(n.ruiz)

July-August-2009

Safety Last, Nonsense First...(n.ruiz)

May-June-2009

Rethinking Critical Theory...(s.petrucciani)

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The Architecture of the Visible » Treasureland of Heroturko

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The Architecture of the Visible

Categories: E-Books » Architecture

The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture By Graham Macphee
Continuum International Publishing Group 2002-07 240 Pages ISBN: 0826459269 PDF 11.7 MB

Visual technology now saturates everyday life. Theories of the visual - now key to debates across cultural studies, social theory, art history, literary studies and philosophy - have interpreted this condition as the beginning of a dystopian future, of cultural decline, social disempowerment and political passivity. This book presents a wide-ranging critical reassessment of contemporary visual culture through an analysis of pivotal technological innovation from the telescope, through photography to film. A range of theorists - from Baudelaire to Merleau-Ponty, Debord, Benjamin, Virilio, Jameson, Baudrillard and Derrida - have explored how technology not only reinvents the visual but also changes the nature of culture itself. The heartland of all such cultural analysis has been the city, from Baudelaire's flaneur to Benjamin's Arcades. Drawing on the examples of Paris and New York - two key world cities since the 19th century - the book analyses how visual technology is revolutionising the landscape of modern thought, politics and culture.

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Art in the Age of Orbitization - Gotchi Universe | Φrbit° sφaceφlace :: art in the age øf Φrbitizatiøn

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Art in the Age of Orbitization - Gotchi Universe

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Wiki Growth over Time as a Force-Directed Network Layout - information aesthetics

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Wiki Growth over Time as a Force-Directed Network Layout

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Wiki Growth Over Time [tudelft.nl] visualizes the growth of the website wiki.tudelft.nl since its conception in late 2004. Since then, the wiki has grown to over 10,000 pages, as it is now part of the officially supported ICT infrastructure of the Delft University of Technology.

Using the Prefuse library, all web pages are represented as nodes, while edges are links between those pages. A force directed layout is used, meaning that pages naturally push away from each other, while edges bring them closer together, just like springs. This results in highly connected pages migrating to the center, while less connected pages are pushed to the outside.

You can watch the animation of the growth process below, which somehow resembles that of cell multiplication. Other representations include a bar graph of the number of edits per user, and a co-authorship network.

See also History Flow, Wikipedia Mosaic, Most Visited Wikipedia, Chromogram Wikipedia, Wikipedia Clusterball, Wiki Related Pages Graph, WikiRank, and Wikipedia Treemap.

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42 Free Online Magazines For Designers | Graphics

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Art and design magazines are designers close companion. Not only it feeds us with latest trends and news in the design industry, it’s also a good source of inspiration, particularly useful for those who hit the design block frequently. Just in case you weren’t aware, there’s a huge pool of free design magazines on the net; we meant those softcopy magazines you can either browse online or download (.PDF, .SWF) for offline viewing. Not only they have high quality content, each issue released is also free. We thought that’s generous of these folks. Today we want to present you with N Free Magazines for Designers. Even if you are looking for something to kill the spare time, we think these mags will help too. Full list after jump. More? If you happen to know some good free magazines that we’ve missed. Feel free to leave a comment or contact us. We add it in. Our Top Picks GizMag Weekly web magazine full of neat stuff. Every 3 months a free PDF is published with some of the past subjects, including interviews and artwork. A List Apart It’s not really a ‘magazine’ since it don’t come in .PDF or any downloable format. But it’s certainly a must-read for any web designers. Bak Magazine Artzmania Veer Catalog PDF Mags Nothing but lots of PDF magazines, for free. Destructed Magazine Art- and Designmagzine in .PDF format released quaterly with each issue deals with a unique topic. Magwerk Love Pics Komma Delve Magazine Delve was created to explore visual culture through experimentation in design, photography, illustration, and other related visual arts. Kino Mag CRU A Magazine CRU A is a digital magazine about arts and culture. Root Magazine More Free Magazines RevolutionArt Magazine REVOLUTIONART international magazine is a publication delivered in pdf format as a collective sample of the best of the graphics arts, modeling, music, and world tendences. Deliver every 2 months. Castle Magazine Castlemagazine is a pdf online mag which consists of the work of free Illustrators, Artists or other creative nerds. ANTI NTI Magazine aims to showcase outstanding visual content as an online magazine and also through future exhibitions all around the world. Blanket Magazine Free PDF art + design + photography magazine that is released bi-monthly. bitFUUL Magazine Breed Magazine BREED Magazine covers art, fashion, music and ideas quarterly for free subscription. Bloodwars Magazine Wag True Eye Royal Magazine Private journal of The KDU (Keystone Design Union), a Global Fraternal Creative Collective dedicated to creating and managing innovative design centric objects, brands and experiences. Ruby Mag Sphere Magazine Phase Collective NLF Magazine Noname Magazine Multilink Magazine Kromag TXTnein Free pdf magazine made with submissions of graphic designers, photographers and artists over the world Etel Magazine We thought this is a good magazine, but too bad the English version is currently not available. Proteus Mag Online art and design magazine. {ths} Beast Magazine The bible of inspiration. Bedifferent CODE Magazine Daheim Magazine Design And Life The minizine gathers information including design, lifestyle, fashion, trend and creative news from all over the world. File Magazine Publish images that treat subjects in unexpected ways. Made in Street 2ndDesign Magazine via hongkiat.com Where you can always find inspiration.

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