【科藝】SIGGRAPH'09:Information Aesthetics Showcase展覽(轉載)

小牛流浪記 2009/9/6 許素朱

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這是Siggraph第一次以「資訊美學(information aesthetics)」為主體之 Information Art 的網路與實體展覽，主要由Victoria Szabo所策展。

（相關作品詳細解說，日後有空再補述。）

MBTI Map represents the relationships among 39 representative words that describe 16 personalities using a subway map as a visual metaphor. The “subway lines” indicate 16 MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) personality types.

MBTI Map represents the relationships among 39 representative words that describe 16 personalities using a subway map as a visual metaphor. The “subway lines” indicate 16 MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) personality types.

Touch the Invisibles is a novel interface that superimposes tactile information onto the images displayed on a computer monitor. A small vibrator is attached to a user’s fingenail, and when a vibration is presented during a finger movement, the vibration can be perceived as the stimulus from a finger pad, instead of a stimulus from the nail.

Rhythm Analysis – A Temporal Stereopsis of Urban Telecommunication Data Topography reveals a stereoscopic representation of temporal and spatial telecommunication data, an urban communication indicator of everyday life, for 24 hours in a central area of Seoul, created by “transparent LED display sheets” of conductive carbon nanotubes.

Rhythm Analysis – A Temporal Stereopsis of Urban Telecommunication Data Topography reveals a stereoscopic representation of temporal and spatial telecommunication data, an urban communication indicator of everyday life, for 24 hours in a central area of Seoul, created by “transparent LED display sheets” of conductive carbon nanotubes.

Visual Genealogy: Mr. PARK, Myrang-Hwarok Clan compresses half a millennium of data about people’s lives into a single computer-generated image. It shows the family tree of Mr. Park and reveals their life and death.

“Height Restriction“, “24X7@PHL: Vectoring”, and “Landmark Status” are part of an investigation into the usage of animation software and procedural modeling as a method for visualizing time-based quantitative data via construction. While appearing relatively bleak when seen as small posters on the exhibition wall, the ideas behind seem sophisticated and the visuals compelling at the website.

其他：

. News Knitter materializes large-scale data gathered from online political news through beautiful wearable garments. Seeing them in person make you only wish more that they would be for sale! (nb: potential buyers can leave your contact details Mahir’s website)

. OpenStreetMap 2008: A Year of Edits is a wiki-style 3D globe map of the world, in which all edits over time, themselves results of physical local surveys, flash white and then decays through yellow and red to purple.

. MSNBC Hurricane Tracker and Oakland Crimespotting both how off Stamen’s ability in both graphical design and technical development. As with most other screen-based works, it seemed to attract fewer onlookers than the non-screen works.

. Eigenfactor demonstrates how elegance and information can be effectively merged. It attracted quite some people by its additional poster and bright downlight.

. Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced is an interactive screen-based collection of visualizations revealing deep structures of choreographic thinking through a vivid collection of information objects in the form of 3D computer animation, annotation, and interactive graphics. Even the 3 separate displays could show only a glimpse of its richness.

. The playfulness of Visual Poetry was represented by 3 nicely framed posters.

. A_B_ peace & terror is a transparent poster revealing the quantitative contribution of each of the 192 member states of the United Nations has made toward peace and terror in the world.

. The Katrina Project: NO-LA is a database-driven, activist web site explores the psychological and social effects of the Katrina storm in New Orleans.