Author(s):
Felix Heinen
Institution:
University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg
Year:
2007
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Project Description:
For his final year project in information design, Felix Heinen created an amazing set of visualizations of different aspects of a social network. Two big (200 x 90 cm - 80 x 36 inches) posters show the variety and attitudes of members from an internet community like MySpace.
On the first poster you can see the functions used, as well as additional information, such as age, educational background, family status, gender and how often they are logged in. In a glimpse, a view into the key demographic data available for every member's profile.
The second poster gives you an overview of the geographic location of all members, based on a world map. The aim was to provide the management team with a visualization tool that would allow a better understanding of the community members, rather than a just a simple scan of their database. Felix has also developed a flash based interactive tool that allows users to navigate through all the collected data.
Friday, 27 April 2007
Data visualisation
Thursday, 26 April 2007
PLAY.contexts
PLAY.contexts
PLAY.orchestra is the result of a collaboration between Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments, South Bank Centre Education and the Philharmonia Orchestra. The instrument graphics were created by pupils from 6 Lambeth primary schools, who are working with the Orchestra on the MusicScape project.
PLAY.orchestra
56 plastic cubes and 3 Hotspots are laid out on a full size orchestra stage, each cube containing a light and speaker.
Sit down on the cube or stand in the hotspot to turn on that instrument and bring 58 friends to hear the full piece.
Muio Interface
The muio interface is a modular system for sensing and controlling the Real World, from programmes such as Pure Data, MAX/MSP, SuperCollider, Processing or something you have written yourself
There are several interface controllers around now - some others are even OpenSource. They all have their pros and cons. However.
# The muio needs NO PROGRAMMING.
# The muio needs only 2 readily available chips to get started.
The muio interface is an I2C to USB hardware device, based on USBIO from Delcom Engineering. I2C is a standard protocol that is popular within robotics. There are several ready made chips and circuit boards that are i2C compliant. These can be ready connected to the muio and are controllable once you know the operation codes for that particular device.
Installation Work
Camille Utterback
External Measures
External Measures, 2003 is the third piece in a series of interactive installations which hinge the parameters of dynamic compositions to human motion in the gallery space. This piece creates a hypnotic tension between presence and absence, mark making and erasing, human gesture and algorithmic drawing.
