As internet software, and our interaction with it, evolves, so to does the representation of the data being used. An increasing amount of web-based services now incorporate data from multiple sources, integrating databased information to represent some sort of compiled narrative. Furthermore, this is not limited to the mining of data from static websites but includes the input of data direct from social media accounts such as Twitter, Facebook, and from GPS-enabled devices such as the iPhone. Such visual mashups reflect trends and merge information in unexpected ways to produce interesting ways to perceive the information being mined.
Visualcomplexity.com is a site dedicated to being interested in such data collection, and showcases various projects whose visual representations of data produce new, original and sometimes useful (such as the Google Maps traffic visualization) mappings of data which either live online or interact with online technologies.
I have just finished working on the site for artist Geoffrey Olsen. I designed the site way back at the beginning of the year, and programmed it more recently, in time for a launch to coincide with that of the exhibition being held at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, on 2nd September 2009. The site is designed to be regularly updatable with content regarding further exhibitions, news items and catalogues. With a WordPress theme built from scratch and a smattering of jQuery for improved front-end presentation, the site creates a presence which foregrounds the visual, and can be updated whilst remaining well-structured and organised.
Openned have scheduled another reading event which will, as usual, take place at the Foundry, London. The rest of the event is not so usual, and will form a benefit event for the Lajee Centre, Bethlehem. Details below are from Openned's Facebook event for the evening, and describe the plans as they currently stand.
I'm a little late in reporting this, but Susana Gardner recently posted about the latest issue of Dusie, and what a huge and quality-packed issue it is, too...
Electronic Literature Organization’s Joseph Tabbi has begun a one-day online discussion with an article, On Reading 300 Works of Electronic Literature: Preliminary Reflections.
Readers are invited to participate in the ensuing discussion through the comments form. A writeup of the discussion will follow in a subsequent post on the site.
Openned have a couple of FREE publications up lately, both of which are more than worthy of more than a mention. But, I'm afraid, a mention is all they are getting for now: Sean Bonney: the Commons II; Alex Davies: LONDON§TONE
It’s been a wonderful, but very packed month. The blog will resume near-to-normal service over the coming week, please stay tuned!
Prophecy from MSN's homepage, in a starkly apt piece of contextual marketing...
Salt Publishing's recent initiative has, by all accounts, been a success and they continue to urge you, the poetry-loving public, to buy their books and produce a VICTORY for independent publishing...
