Literary Art on teh Web

@supergsp

Why

understand ourselves
- people in data, data in the perspective of people
- humanities see tech as foreign
- tech excludes humanities
- make them fall in love
understand the systems to which we are subjected and to which we subject others
- in the current state of systems, there is a defensive nature to the way data is being use
- data art as a way of helping explain and elaborate on systems
expand our horizons
- experiment with data visualizations
- non-standard methods
- useful
- positive
- attractive
it's fun

Types

Artisinal Data
- Traits
  - Small
  - Fragmented
  - Incomplete
  - Bound by imagination
  - Narratives
- Examples
  - "First Chapters" Stefanie Posavec
    - Showing formulaic examples of how first chapters work
  - "Day in the Life" Chris Whong
    - Full day of a taxi driver's travel
    - Tracking of fare in the cab
  - "Quantified Breakup" Lam Thuy Vo
    - Standard visualizations used for divorce
  - "Timeline of Neglect" by the speaker
    - Aging of unread books on the shelf
Questions Who speaks? to whom when what language to what authority

Who sees?

Language as Data
- Traits
  - Translation in the realm of abstraction/absurdity
- Examples
  - "Patatap" Jonobr1 + lullatone
  - "Patent Generator" Sam Levine
  - Bots (@TwoHeadlines @gameideamachine)
  - Looking for holes in Gov't Documents - Davide Bonazzi for Columbia Magazine

Where to start

What do you love that has nothing to do with tech?
What system has assumptions do you want to explore?
Are there tools you want to play with?
- d3.js
Can you remake something beautiful driven by data?

Process

Sketch
- on paper
- enjoyable images
Gather data
Test data / fail / repeat / revise
Make it work, show others

Interactive Data Visualization d3.js in action irene ros