Data Visualization and Database Aesthetics
The Database as Cultural Form



  • Readings:

    Christiane Paul, The Database as System and Cultural Form: Anatomies of Cultural Narratives
    Lev Manovich, Database as a Symbolic Form
    Lev Manovich, Data Visualization as New Abstraction and Anti-Sublime
    Warren Sack, Aesthetics of Information Visualization
    Brett Stalbaum, An Interpretive Framework for Contemporary Database Practice in the Arts
    [Discussion of the essay on Rhizome]
    Brett Stalbaum, After Land Art: Database and the Locative Turn
    Lev Manovich, Social Data Browsing



  • Exhibition:

    Database Imaginary



  • "Information Architecture:"

    The Art Of Memory
    Giulio Camillo, Memory Theater



  • Mapping "Information Space":

    Martin Dodge, Atlas of Cyberspaces

    Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg, "Apartment"



  • The network as database:

    Maciej Wisniewski, Netomat
    Lisa Jevbratt, 1:1



  • Visualizing Data Sets:

    Ben Fry, Valence / simplified Java version
    Bradford Paley, TextArc
    Schoenerwissen, txtkit - Visual Text Mining Tool

    Real-Time Financial Databases:
    Smart Money's Map of the Market by Martin Wattenberg
    Nancy Patterson, Stock Market Skirt
    Lynn Hershman, Synthia
    John Klima, ecosystm



  • Database as "Cultural Narrative":

    George Legrady, Slippery Traces / Pockets Full of Memories
    Jennifer & Kevin MCoy, Every Shot, Every Episode / How I learned
    Golan Levin (with Martin Wattenberg, Jonathan Feinberg, Shelly Wynecoop, David Elashoff, and David Becker)
    The Secret Life of Numbers



  • Database Cinema:

    Jennifer & Kevin MCoy, 201, A Space Algorithm / Soft Rains
    Lev Manovich, Soft Cinema
    Marc Lafia & Fang-Yu Lin, The Battle of Algiers



  • "Locative" Database | Mapping of Physical Space:

    John Klima, Earth
    Scott Paterson, Marina Zurkov, Julian Bleecker PDPal
    Carbon Defense League, MapHub(tm) (screenshot)
    Q.S. Serafijn, D-tower / Project info
    C5, The Landscape Initiative



  • Database, Social Control, Power Relationships:

    Josh On & Futurefarmers, They rule
    Beatriz da Costa, Brooke Singer, Jamie Schulte, we swipe / Swipe Toolkit
    Natalie Jeremijenko, HOW STUFF IS MADE / Your Average Criminal / The Category Beautiful / Culpability Calculations / Despondency Index



  • Visualizing Large-Scale Online Communication:

    Warren Sack, Conversation Map
    Judith Donath, Chat Circles
    Warren Sack, Agonistics - A Language Game / artport portal



  • Social Data Browsing:
    Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg, The Dumpster
    Doug McCune, Political Friendster
    Marcos Weskamp, Flickr Graph