The Dumpster

A Visualization of Romantic Breakups for 2005

Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg

The Dumpster is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has “dumped” another. The project’s graphical tools reveal the astonishing similarities, unique differences, and underlying patterns of these failed relationships, providing both peculiarly analytic and sympathetically intimate perspectives onto the diversity of global romantic pain.

The Dumpster is the first in a series of three works co-commissioned in collaboration with Tate Online. Critical texts and video interviews with the artists will accompany the works at TATE online.

[ artport.whitney.org/.../dumpster.shtml ]

information aesthetics

weblog – towards creative information visualization

Inspired by Manovich’s definition of information aesthetics, this weblog explores the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization, in an emergent multidisciplinary field what could be coined as ‘creative information visualization’.

The weblog information aestehtics is based on the assertion that information visualization can be enriched with the principles of creative design and art, to develop valuable data representations that address the emotional experience of users, instead of solely focusing on typical task effectiveness metrics. as information access enters the everyday life of users and becomes increasingly ubiquitous and pervasive, novel approaches are required that take into account considerations of user engagement and visual aesthetics. instead of evaluating such information applications by measuring task performance and comprehension effectiveness, one should consider to determine user interest, attention, focus, enjoyment and curiousity.

[ infosthetics.com ]

INFOTUBE

Visualisation of Shopping Information

Thema: Out of Door Media / Urban Environments: INFOTUBE als Bsp für Visualisation of Shopping Information.

Concept: Representation and Visualization

INFOTUBE is a web-based project proposing to visualize the existing Motomachi Shopping Street in Yokohama, Japan, as a cyberspace filled with consumer information. Instead of direct “representation” of the real Shopping Street into the 3D space, we choose the way of “visualization” of a space entirely generated from the information itself. INFOTUBE will supply information to visitors in a way that they cannot perceive from the real Shopping Street. It is expected to develop reciprocal actions between the Shopping Street and web pages

[ www.plannet-arch.com/information/tube.htm ]