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I'm an Image Art student at Ryerson University. This is my New Media blog.
Photosynthesis
The project is a large scale flower that breathes within its environment. The flower collects data from its environment through sensors that monitor the CO2 levels around it. Depending on the levels, the flower breathes heavier or softer. The metal structure of the flower was designed to represent the industrial impacts on the air that we breathe. Video Documentation of the Flower Hard at work.
MPM35 Final Project
theRaven For my data source I was interested in manipulating text, specifically text in the form of a poem. The first poem that came to mind was Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem, The Raven. My intention for this piece was to generate a connection between the literary, spoken and photographic concepts of a single work. So, I combined the text of The Raven, the audio reading of The Raven by James Earl Jones and a symbolic image of a raven. I created my piece using Processing. A HashMap class scans the text file of the poem and visually displays the data of the most repeated words (larger text size for the most common words and smaller text for less common). Common English words such as ‘at’, ‘the’, ‘there’, ‘is’, etc. are not included in the count. As the words generate, line-by-line, they form the image of a raven. The raven is a cutout of a PNG image file so the words run behind the image and they become visible when they pass the cutout of the raven. Then as soon as the sketch is running an audio recording of James Earl Jones reading The Raven starts to play.
MPM35 research blog
Bus structure 2am-2pm Artist: R. Justin Stewart “A brilliant representation of a system which doesn’t really work!”, a comment left by a viewer which I thought was an accurate statement. I take the TTC everyday to and from school and even though this data is of a different system I think it is a good representation of the general public transit culture. An organized system which is unorganized in the perspective of the participant. What caught my attention is how the artist brought the data into a three-dimensional network system. I remember seeing network structures in class that relate to this topic; air traffic, specific travel routes, etc. Although the themes are similar, each is represented in a completely different visualization format. I also really like how the artist has created two view points, so having this piece build in real space gives it more meaning. On top, over looking this network gives the viewer the direction of movement, from the side is a sense of time, and from any other angle I guess there would be a feeling of both; the movement through time.
MPM35: assignment 1 - Many Eyes
PART 1 I chose ‘Box Office Sales’ as a dataset. Its original visualization used the bubble chart; I chose the bar chart as an alternate visualization. In terms of organization and visual understanding I think my representation using the bar graph is a better version. There is a lot of information in this dataset and since majority of the statistics are very similar the comparisons are barely noticeable with circles as a representation. With the bar graph is it obviously clearer to compare statistics between all of the classes. PART 2 Ontario’s minimum wage was the topic of my dataset, I chose this data because being a student, minimum wage is what everyone gets when they first start work. So I thought it would be interesting to see how great the increase has gotten. To represent this information I chose to use a scatterplot graph. I think this graph represents the data in an understandable way; it’s easier to distinguish the difference from say 2005 to 2009, where as in a pie chart for example the visual aid would not be as great. A pattern that I noticed was variable of increase fro year to year. The amount of money increases by a larger percent each year. |
