Localitzats [Located] aims to show how the emergence of technology in each of the different aspects of our daily life leads to the irreversible loss of privacy, which affects us all; a fact that we often do not seem to be sufficiently aware of.

In this case, the work focuses on the Priorat region, a territory that allows the development of the project because of its size and small number of villages and residents. Localitzats_PRIORAT displays the first and last names of more than three thousand residents of Priorat that have been located on the Network. This information was obtained through a simple search by locality carried out in one of the many telephone contact records on the Internet. Continue reading

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The Urban Spectator: American Concept-Cities from Kodak to Google by Eric Gordon:

The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing — what he labels “possessive spectatorship.” Continue reading

Visual Interpretations - Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences :: May 20-22, 2010 :: HyperStudio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA :: Call for Proposals: Deadline: March 31, 2010. Free but you must Register.

How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions? How does visual rhetoric shape the way we relate to documents and artifacts? And, can we recompose the field of digital humanities to integrate more dynamic analytical methods into humanities research? Continue reading

[Image: Usman Haque's Natural Fuse] ZER01, xClinic and Pachube.com call for Out of the Garage, Into the World :: September 4 - 20, 2010 :: South Hall, San Jose, California :: Open Call for Projects — Deadline: March 29, 2010 (application).

ZER01: the Art and Technology Network, in collaboration with xClinic and Pachube.com is soliciting proposals from artists to create environmental health projects and lifestyle experiments that make use of Pachube (a web-based sensor data storage and brokerage system that makes it easy to publish geolocated time-series data in real-time and to couple local and remote sensors and actuators). We are looking for truly innovative projects that push the boundaries of both environmental analysis and action, projects that don’t just “make data public” but help the “public make data,” projects that consider very carefully the relationship between all sorts of systems, human and non-human alike, technological and cultural. You will need to do a lot more than just plug a sensor into a tree and get it to tweet! Continue reading

On Gaps and Silent Documents :: February 9-14, 2010 :: STUK arts centre, Naamsestraat 96, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

In On Gaps and Silent Documents international artists question the absence of documents and data in archives, data banks and memory. What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? Does available information exist that is not looked at, read or used? Archives and data banks are primarily determined by these gaps and silent documents. As Sven Spieker notes, ‘Archives are less concerned with memory than with the necessity to discard, erase, eliminate.’ Creating archives is continual selection. As such, it reveals the priorities and blind spots of the keeper of the archives, his world and his time. Continue reading

hint.fm: The Joy of Revelation through Expressive Visualization: Two of the very best visualization designers and researchers around today, Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, have started a new website, titled Hint.fm (or it exists much longer and I just didn’t know). The website collects their past presentations, publications, exhibitions, press coverage, and all of their works, of which Many Eyes, FleshMap, and Phrase Nets are just a few. Most projects are remarkable in their apparent focus on combining the aspects of beauty and story-telling through the presentation data. As they state themselves in the colophon, “Unlike … traditional uses, we believe visualization to be an expressive medium that invites emotion.” Continue reading

Digicult DATA - Sincronie Festival 2009 curated by Marco Mancuso :: December 15, 2009 — Lecture by Evelina Domnitch & Dmitri Gelfand: 7:30 – 8:30 pm :: Screening of Hidden Worlds: 9:00 – 10:00 pm :: screening :: Performance by 10000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid: 10:00 - 11:00 pm :: Teatro Arsenale, Milan.

Digimag presents DATA, the third meeting of the Sincronie Festival of 2009. The event will be an encounter with two Soviet artists, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, who will talk about their artistic production on the brink between art and science, and will exhibit their live performance 10000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid. The event will be enriched by the projection of the video screening Hidden Worlds, where a series of audiovisual works have been selected that investigate the relationship between audiovisuals and science. Continue reading

DarkMatr :: December 17-19, 2009; 2:00 - 7:00 pm :: Opening: December 16; 6:00 -9:00 pm :: iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, 30 quai des Charbonnages, 1080 Brussels.

After 2 residencies at iMAL and one year of work, Tom Heene and his colleagues artists, developers and scientists show the results of the research project DarkMatr. DarkMatr investigates the way virtual and physical data can be merged and presented in a total user experience. The resulting installation uses meaningful representations of web data so that we can empathize with. Taking place within an immersive environment, the visualization is lived as an interactive sensory experience, combining body movements to elements from the internet. Continue reading

Autoscopia — by Adam Nash, Christopher Dodds and Justin Clemens: In the psychological condition of autoscopia, I literally see myself. Autoscopia entails alienation (I am I/I am not I), division (I am one/I am two), disembodiment (I am outside my own body) and inorganic vision (I see my own body but not with my own eyes). There is also a variant known as ‘negative autoscopia’ (I cannot see my own reflection in a mirror). The doppelgänger and the vampire are two ancient images of such an experience: the doppelgänger is the literal body-double of oneself; a vampire cannot appear in a mirror.

Autoscopia’s Second Life portraits are built using data from internet-based ‘vanity searches’ conducted within the Second Life installation. Each name creates a unique outcome composed of 27 ‘limbs’. Each limb is fed data from websites such as Google, Facebook, Twitter etc, with colours, geometry and audio affected by variations in search volume. Continue reading

CIANT | International Centre for Art and New Technologies presents Informace na tělo / Wearable Information: Mahir M. Yavuz & Ebru Kurbak :: December 18-21, 2009; Opening + Presentation: December 18; 7:00 pm :: Fotograf Studio, Školská 28, Praha 1.

The concept of information visualization is not brand new, yet today it is a trending topic not only in the fields of art and design but also in social sciences, journalism and governmental strategies. Day by day, tools for data creation is improving, online social networks are gathering more people and the amount of digital data is rapidly increasing. In the recent years, this emerging field began to provide us many different visual outputs in various forms. But, is it possible to think of information visualization in casual forms in our daily life, or even as a source of fashion design? This exhibition presents two projects involved in information visualisation on daily wearables. Continue reading