new Software Studies' visualizations @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

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HERE NOT THERE: SAN DIEGO ART NOW
Jun 06, 2010–Sep 19, 2010 at MCASD La Jolla.

New visualizations created by William Huber, Tara Zappel and Lev Manovich are currently on display at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

We are grateful to MCASD Associate Curator Lucía Sanromán who helped us in conceptualizing and making possible creation of this work.

The two wall-size visualizations compare the evolution of Science iourmal (1880-1906) and Popular Science magazine (1872-1922).



Science 1880-1906


Popular Science 1872-1922


A sketch showing evolution of Science 1872-2009 using selected journal issues

Software Studies Brazil @ Laboratório de Cultura Viva (ECO/UFRJ)

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The Software Studies Brazil coordinator, Cicero Silva, will talk at the Laboratório de Cultura Viva at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) on July 8, 2010.

The topics that the lecture will address are the new interface systems for video, text and animation and the culture of visualization that is coming from new methodologies related to the structure of software and content distribution.

The seminar is coordinated by Ivana Bentes (Chair of the Communication School and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

More at http://laboratorioculturaviva.pontaodaeco.org/#programacao

O coordenador do grupo de Software Studies no Brasil, Cicero Silva, será um dos palestrantes no Laboratório de Cultura Viva da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) no dia 08 de julho de 2010.

O seminário abordará as novas configurações e interfaces para sistemas de distribuição de vídeo, texto, animações e imagens e apresentará novas metodologias relacionadas às estruturas de funcionamento dos softwares e distribuição de conteúdo.

O seminário é coordenado por Ivana Bentes (diretora da Escola de Comunicação da UFRJ)

+ em http://laboratorioculturaviva.pontaodaeco.org/#programacao

new display wall at CRCA

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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.

Playpower no Brasil | Playpower project in Brazil

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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

article about our exhibition SHAPING TIME at Graphic Design Museum (Breda, ND):

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Shaping Time: Dutch Museum Opens Design Exhibition by Digital Culture Guru Lev Manovich

2 New Grants Awarded to Software Studies Initiative

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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:

Visualization as a new language of theory: lecture outline

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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)