posts//tag: visualização de dados

datajockey in buenos aires

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datajockey buenos aires

i’m honored to announce that i’ll be giving a workshop at flexible lab, buenos aires, in a partnership with laboratorio de juguete. the workshop will be based on the previous one that took place in the Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo. there will be 4 meetings. in the first one, a discussion on the subject of computation and data visualization is proposed. for the next 3 meetings, 3 exercises are proposed: one of text data visualzation; one of access and appropriation of the twitter databank; and the last one, an experiment with data coming from the physical world.

also, i’ll be giving an introduction to the subject of the workshop on the thursday before the 1st meeting, 21/07, from 19:00 to 20:30, also at flexible lab.

if you happen to be interested in participating, write an e-mail to labodejuguete@gmail.com with a brief curriculum and a few words about your expactations.

well, hope to see you there. special thanks to jorge crowe and to the flexible lab!

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text data visualization

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visualizing text data

i’ve uploaded a processing sketch in openprocessing platform, done as an exercise for the datajockey workshop. the sketch can be used to visualize textual data in different types of geometrical representations.

press “C” for circles, “S” for squares and rectangles, “A” for arcs and “L” for lines.

the above example is a visualization of a couple of paragraphs taken off the machado de assis’ novel dom casmurro.

you can check the source code and download the sketch here.

 

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datajockey

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datajockey

“(…) while artists in all disciplines are now routinely computer as a tool in their work, there are still literally only a few artists out there who focus on one of the most fundamental and radical concepts associated with digital computers – that of computation itself (rather than interactivity, network, or multimedia).”.

- Lev Manovich, The Anti-Sublime Ideal in Data Art, p.6.

the concept of computation can be approached as the systematic and autonomous mathematization of communication processes. even tough the complexification of such processes is an undeniable problem, there is a fact - emphasized by Manovich - that is even more essential: the conversion of culture into one single nature of bits and bytes.

the workshop DataJockey tries to address some of these questions concerning computation processes, providing a space of discussion and experimentation about a possible image or aesthetics that dialogues with such problem.

in order to achieve that, the workshop proposes exercises with open source technologies Processing and Arduino. these tools will be used in simple examples of data conversion, so that one can experiment with an image that is real time generated, product of local circumstances (through the use of sensors and cameras) or of other contexts (network information).

from the 17th to the 31st of may, tuesdays and thursdays, in the LabMIS/Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo.

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