DSDN 244: guest lecture Richard Clarkson
today my data vs. raw data?
abstraction of data = “Black spots� visualisation media data resolution
data + photography
“Data itself is never neutral; it is collected for a reason, and processed and presented for specific purposes…There is no such thing as raw data.”
Peter Hall Critical Visualization
the lowest level of abstraction from which information and then knowledge are derived
black spots
data sets
Ken Murphy
“How do you get the story from the data... [the audience] want to know what's the important thing. They want to know why they want to look at it.�
Scott Byrne-Fraser BBC News Online
“The winking lights, the flickering television screens and the squawks from the music machines are signalling the end of abstract art; when machines can do it, it will not be worth doing.�
Robert Melville 1968
Satre Stuelke Radiology Art 2006
visualisation media
coding visualisations
QR Tag “to be or not to be”
Aaron Koblin
Radiohead: House of cards, James Frost ( Director) & Aaron Koblin (Interaction)
data resolution
Arturo Castro
“For me the highest goal is to change what you think about the world, or to take something you already know and to think about it again for the first time.�
Amanda Cox The New York Times
Caleb Charland
data + photography
= “datography”
Micheal Najjar
Peter Orntoft
MRI
angela palmer untitled MRI 2005
angela palmer untitled MRI glass transfer
2005
angela palmer untitled glass transfer 2005
David Spriggs
All Blacks “Bonded by Blood” 2006
end‌ Questions? clarkson.richard.nz@gmail.com Ted Talks (optional)