The tiled display is on generous loan to CRCA from Scripps.
Its amazing to have this system right in our working area and be able to use it anytime.
Image: a visualization of 50,000 Manga pages on the new display wall.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
new display wall at CRCA
In addition to 70 screen HIPerSpace supervisualization system we have been working with since 2008, we now have access to a smaller 15 tiled display wall located in the same space where we work - CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts). The new wall is running the same interactive visualization software as the big wall.
The tiled display is on generous loan to CRCA from Scripps.
Its amazing to have this system right in our working area and be able to use it anytime.
Image: a visualization of 50,000 Manga pages on the new display wall.
The tiled display is on generous loan to CRCA from Scripps.
Its amazing to have this system right in our working area and be able to use it anytime.
Image: a visualization of 50,000 Manga pages on the new display wall.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Playpower no Brasil | Playpower project in Brazil
O projeto Playpower esteve no Brasil nos dias 17 e 19 de maio de 2010 para palestras na Universidade Mackenzie e na Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Os pesquisadores Jeremy Douglass e Don Miller participaram de inúmeras atividades envolvendo palestras e workshops para produção de jogos educacionais em 8 bits.
The Playpower project team was in Brazil for a serie of lectures and workshops on May 2010. Jeremy Douglass and Don Miller spent almost one week in Brazil lecturing in São Paulo, Juiz de Fora and Rio de Janeiro.
Veja os vídeos
Take a look at the videos
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
2 New Grants Awarded to Software Studies Initiative
We were awarded two new grants which will allow us to keep going forward with Cultural Analytics research:
1.
agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
amount: $ 50,000 USD
This grant will allow us to further develop the desktop visualization software which allows exploration of patterns in sets of images or video. The software will be distributed as open source.
2.
agency: California Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Calit2)
amount:$ 38,940 USD
This grant will allow us to further develop our visualization application which runs on the HIPerSpace - currently the highest resolution visualization system in the world (315 megapixels). It will also allow us to further advance cultural analytics methods via the analysis of 1 million Manga pages.
An example of a visualization of our Manga data generated with our desktop "image graph" software. The tool was developed by Lev Manovich and Jeremy Douglass. (It took about two days to render this image which includes 1 million Manga pages sorted by X = standard deviation, Y = entropy).
More Manga visualizations on Flickr
Jeremy Douglass using our interactive application running on HIPerSpace supervisualization system:
1.
agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
amount: $ 50,000 USD
This grant will allow us to further develop the desktop visualization software which allows exploration of patterns in sets of images or video. The software will be distributed as open source.
2.
agency: California Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Calit2)
amount:$ 38,940 USD
This grant will allow us to further develop our visualization application which runs on the HIPerSpace - currently the highest resolution visualization system in the world (315 megapixels). It will also allow us to further advance cultural analytics methods via the analysis of 1 million Manga pages.
An example of a visualization of our Manga data generated with our desktop "image graph" software. The tool was developed by Lev Manovich and Jeremy Douglass. (It took about two days to render this image which includes 1 million Manga pages sorted by X = standard deviation, Y = entropy).
More Manga visualizations on Flickr
Jeremy Douglass using our interactive application running on HIPerSpace supervisualization system:
Friday, April 23, 2010
Visualization as a new language of theory: lecture outline
Visualization as a new language of theory
Postdam, April 23, 2010
Berlin, April 23, 2010
Vilnus, April 27, 2010
advantages of visualization + data analysis (cultural analytics):
revealing gradual historical changes
(Time covers, cinemetrics data)
describing analog (continuos) qualities
(The 11th Year - average movement per shot
motion graphics)
understanding interactivity
(games comparison)
analysis of large sets of cultural artifacts / processes:
comparison, central tendency, dispersion, outliers, signatures, identification of similar patterns
(Time covers image graph
912 Manga titles (1000000 pages) - Mondrian software
Vertov films)
from small number of categories to distributions in feature space
visualization of quantities vs. categories (historical examples)
(Manga image graph
Manga analysis - Mondrian software)
Postdam, April 23, 2010
Berlin, April 23, 2010
Vilnus, April 27, 2010
advantages of visualization + data analysis (cultural analytics):
revealing gradual historical changes
(Time covers, cinemetrics data)
describing analog (continuos) qualities
(The 11th Year - average movement per shot
motion graphics)
understanding interactivity
(games comparison)
analysis of large sets of cultural artifacts / processes:
comparison, central tendency, dispersion, outliers, signatures, identification of similar patterns
(Time covers image graph
912 Manga titles (1000000 pages) - Mondrian software
Vertov films)
from small number of categories to distributions in feature space
visualization of quantities vs. categories (historical examples)
(Manga image graph
Manga analysis - Mondrian software)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Italian edition of Software Culture is published
Italian edition of the Lev Manovich's book Software Takes Command has just been published Edizioni Olivares. (The title of the Italian translation is Software Culture.)
Previously Olivares also published Italian translation of Manovich's The Language of New Media which sold 5 editions.
Manovich will introduce the book in Milan on April 16 during Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010:
Date: April 16th
Time: 7pm
Location: Mediateca Santa Teresa
Address: Via della Moscova 28
City: Milan
Monday, March 22, 2010
SHAPING TIME - exhibition of our visualizations at Design Museum in Netherlands
Our visualizations of cultural artifacts (all covers of Time magazine - 4535 issues, 1923-2009; Kingdom Heart II complete game play session - 37 hours of video) will be shown in Graphic Design Museum (Breda, Netherlands). We called the exhibition SHAPING TIME.
The visualizations in the show demonstrate how Cultural Analytics methods being developed by Software Studies Initiative at Calit2/UCSD can reveal interesting patterns across large scale cultural data sets. The two projects to be exhibited are:
- all covers of Time magazine - 4535 issues, 1923-2009;
- Kingdom Heart complete game play session - 62.5 hours of video.
SHAPING TIME will occupy its own gallery which includes a 4 x 15 meter wall visible from the outside. The show is the opening event of a design festival organized by the museum.
The museum director is a world famous designer Mieke Gerritzen. She selected the visualizations and designed the show (Thank you, Mieke!)
SHAPING TIME opens on April 13, 2010.
Here are some of the visualizations which the visitors will see:
Credits:
exhibition design: Mieke Gerritzen.
Time covers visualization: Jeremy Douglass.
Kingdom Hearts gameplay visualization: William Huber.
Data analysis and visualization software: Sunsern Cheamanunkul, So Yamaoka, Lev Manovich.
Design and exhibition images production: Bin (Ong Kian Peng).
Data processing: National Department of Energy Supercomputer Center (NERSC).
Funded by: California Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Calit2), Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), University of California, San Diego (UCSD), National Endowment for Humanities (NEH).
All work is produced by Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com) directed by Lev Manovich.
images of the installed exhibitions on Flickr
The visualizations in the show demonstrate how Cultural Analytics methods being developed by Software Studies Initiative at Calit2/UCSD can reveal interesting patterns across large scale cultural data sets. The two projects to be exhibited are:
- all covers of Time magazine - 4535 issues, 1923-2009;
- Kingdom Heart complete game play session - 62.5 hours of video.
SHAPING TIME will occupy its own gallery which includes a 4 x 15 meter wall visible from the outside. The show is the opening event of a design festival organized by the museum.
The museum director is a world famous designer Mieke Gerritzen. She selected the visualizations and designed the show (Thank you, Mieke!)
SHAPING TIME opens on April 13, 2010.
Here are some of the visualizations which the visitors will see:
Credits:
exhibition design: Mieke Gerritzen.
Time covers visualization: Jeremy Douglass.
Kingdom Hearts gameplay visualization: William Huber.
Data analysis and visualization software: Sunsern Cheamanunkul, So Yamaoka, Lev Manovich.
Design and exhibition images production: Bin (Ong Kian Peng).
Data processing: National Department of Energy Supercomputer Center (NERSC).
Funded by: California Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Calit2), Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), University of California, San Diego (UCSD), National Endowment for Humanities (NEH).
All work is produced by Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com) directed by Lev Manovich.
images of the installed exhibitions on Flickr
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