A new article about Cultural Analytics published @ knowledge.smu.edu.sg, April 2, 2009. (Part of Knowledge@Warton network.)
Reprinted:
khaleejtimes.com. (business section of a daily English language newspaper published in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.)
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Cultural Analytics: history
September 2005: IGRID conference at Calit2 which includes demos of EVL LambdaVision display (55 tiled 30-inch LCD screens).
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November 2005: Lev Manovich submits grant proposal to ACLS:
DATA MINING VISUAL CULTURE
From Summary:
I propose to develop a new approach for the study of visual culture, including art, graphic design, vernacular imagery, photography, cinema, and digital media. The idea is to apply the techniques of computer-based data analysis and data display which already have become routine in the sciences – information visualization, image processing, data mining, data clustering, and others - to the ‘data’ of visual culture, i.e. cultural images.
Similar to the scientists which apply these techniques to massive data sets in order to see new patterns, we can analyze the imagery of whole artistic movements and whole historical periods – for instance, all Dutch seventieth century landscapes, all nineteenth century vernacular photographs available in museum collections, or even – one day - all of twentieth century cinema.
From proposal text:
Scientific communities are spending significant resources today to develop large format displays – such as the EVL LambdaVision display at Calit2 where my new lab is situated... I am convinced that we should follow the practice of scientists to be able to study our own data – cultural images - on very large displays such as LambdaVision. The use of large format displays is especially beneficial when we want to use visualization to look at actual image sets – so that we can visually examine relationships between tens of thousands of images.
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April 2007: Calit2 and CRCA provide funding to establish Software Studies Initiative.
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May-June 2007: Responding to the challenge by Larry Smarr to develop new applications for HIPerWalll, Manovich and Wardrip-Fruin write Cultural Analytics white paper which extends the ideas of Manovich's 2005 ACLS proposal:
"Can we create quantitative measures of cultural innovation? Can we have a real-time detailed map of global cultural production and consumption? Can we visualize flows of cultural ideas, images, and trends? Can we visually represent how cultural and lifestyle preferences – whether for music, forms, designs, or products – gradually change over time?
Today sciences, business, governments and other agencies rely on computer-based analysis and visualization of large data sets and data flows. They employ statistical data analysis, data mining, information visualization, scientific visualization, visual analytics, and simulation. We believe that it is time that we start applying these techniques to cultural data. The large data sets are already here – the result of the digitization efforts by museums, libraries, and companies over the last ten years (think of book scanning by Google and Amazon) and the explosive growth of newly available cultural content on the web."
"Visualizations should be designed to take full advantage of the largest gigapixel wall-size displays available today – that are being constructed at CALIT2."
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April 2008: NEH established Digital Humanities Office and announces Humanities High-Performance Computing (HHPC) grant program:
"Humanities High-Performance Computing (HHPC) refers to the use of high-performance machines for humanities and social science projects. Currently, only a small number of humanities scholars are taking advantage of high-performance computing. But just as the sciences have, over time, begun to tap the enormous potential of HPC, the humanities are beginning to as well. Humanities scholars often deal with large sets of unstructured data. This might take the form of historical newspapers, books, election data, archaeological fragments, audio or video contents, or a host of others. HHPC offers the humanist opportunities to sort through, mine, and better understand and visualize this data."
November 2008: Software Studies Initiative is one of 3 labs awarded HHPC grant
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April 2008: a group of Calit2 researchers headed by Lev Manovich receives Interdisciplinary Collaboratory Grant from UCSD Chancellor office to develop Cultural Analytics Research Environment: an open platform for Digital Humanities Research which will support real-time analysis of different types of visual and media data and a variety of visualization and mapping techniques.
The group which submitted the proposal included the following Calit2 researchers:
Lev Manovich (Visual Arts);
Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Communication);
Falko Kuester (Calit2 and Structural Engineering);
Jim Hollan (Cognitive Science).
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January 2008: NEH and NSF announce Digging Into Data challenge. Grant amounts: up to 300K USD.
"The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) from the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) from Canada."
"The creation of vast quantities of Internet accessible digital data and the development of techniques for large-scale data analysis and visualization have led to remarkable new discoveries in genetics, astronomy, and other fields, and—importantly—connections between academic disciplinary areas."
"With books, newspapers, journals, films, artworks, and sound recordings being digitized on a massive scale, it is possible to apply data analysis techniques to large collections of diverse cultural heritage resources as well as scientific data. How might these techniques help scholars use these materials to ask new questions about and gain new insights into our world?"
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November 2005: Lev Manovich submits grant proposal to ACLS:
DATA MINING VISUAL CULTURE
From Summary:
I propose to develop a new approach for the study of visual culture, including art, graphic design, vernacular imagery, photography, cinema, and digital media. The idea is to apply the techniques of computer-based data analysis and data display which already have become routine in the sciences – information visualization, image processing, data mining, data clustering, and others - to the ‘data’ of visual culture, i.e. cultural images.
Similar to the scientists which apply these techniques to massive data sets in order to see new patterns, we can analyze the imagery of whole artistic movements and whole historical periods – for instance, all Dutch seventieth century landscapes, all nineteenth century vernacular photographs available in museum collections, or even – one day - all of twentieth century cinema.
From proposal text:
Scientific communities are spending significant resources today to develop large format displays – such as the EVL LambdaVision display at Calit2 where my new lab is situated... I am convinced that we should follow the practice of scientists to be able to study our own data – cultural images - on very large displays such as LambdaVision. The use of large format displays is especially beneficial when we want to use visualization to look at actual image sets – so that we can visually examine relationships between tens of thousands of images.
-----------------------------------------------------------
April 2007: Calit2 and CRCA provide funding to establish Software Studies Initiative.
-----------------------------------------------------------
May-June 2007: Responding to the challenge by Larry Smarr to develop new applications for HIPerWalll, Manovich and Wardrip-Fruin write Cultural Analytics white paper which extends the ideas of Manovich's 2005 ACLS proposal:
"Can we create quantitative measures of cultural innovation? Can we have a real-time detailed map of global cultural production and consumption? Can we visualize flows of cultural ideas, images, and trends? Can we visually represent how cultural and lifestyle preferences – whether for music, forms, designs, or products – gradually change over time?
Today sciences, business, governments and other agencies rely on computer-based analysis and visualization of large data sets and data flows. They employ statistical data analysis, data mining, information visualization, scientific visualization, visual analytics, and simulation. We believe that it is time that we start applying these techniques to cultural data. The large data sets are already here – the result of the digitization efforts by museums, libraries, and companies over the last ten years (think of book scanning by Google and Amazon) and the explosive growth of newly available cultural content on the web."
"Visualizations should be designed to take full advantage of the largest gigapixel wall-size displays available today – that are being constructed at CALIT2."
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April 2008: NEH established Digital Humanities Office and announces Humanities High-Performance Computing (HHPC) grant program:
"Humanities High-Performance Computing (HHPC) refers to the use of high-performance machines for humanities and social science projects. Currently, only a small number of humanities scholars are taking advantage of high-performance computing. But just as the sciences have, over time, begun to tap the enormous potential of HPC, the humanities are beginning to as well. Humanities scholars often deal with large sets of unstructured data. This might take the form of historical newspapers, books, election data, archaeological fragments, audio or video contents, or a host of others. HHPC offers the humanist opportunities to sort through, mine, and better understand and visualize this data."
November 2008: Software Studies Initiative is one of 3 labs awarded HHPC grant
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April 2008: a group of Calit2 researchers headed by Lev Manovich receives Interdisciplinary Collaboratory Grant from UCSD Chancellor office to develop Cultural Analytics Research Environment: an open platform for Digital Humanities Research which will support real-time analysis of different types of visual and media data and a variety of visualization and mapping techniques.
The group which submitted the proposal included the following Calit2 researchers:
Lev Manovich (Visual Arts);
Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Communication);
Falko Kuester (Calit2 and Structural Engineering);
Jim Hollan (Cognitive Science).
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January 2008: NEH and NSF announce Digging Into Data challenge. Grant amounts: up to 300K USD.
"The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) from the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) from Canada."
"The creation of vast quantities of Internet accessible digital data and the development of techniques for large-scale data analysis and visualization have led to remarkable new discoveries in genetics, astronomy, and other fields, and—importantly—connections between academic disciplinary areas."
"With books, newspapers, journals, films, artworks, and sound recordings being digitized on a massive scale, it is possible to apply data analysis techniques to large collections of diverse cultural heritage resources as well as scientific data. How might these techniques help scholars use these materials to ask new questions about and gain new insights into our world?"
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Analítica Cultural: histórico
Setembro de 2005: Conferência IGRID no Calit2 que incluiu demonstrações da tela EVL Lambda Vision (55 telas de LCD com 30 polegadas posicionadas lado a lado).
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Novembro de 2005: Lev Manovich aplica para o fundo de pesquisa ACLS:
PROCESSANDO DADOS DA CULTURA VISUAL
Resumo:
Proponho desenvolver uma nova abordagem para o estudo da cultura visual, incluindo arte, design gráfico, imagéticas vernaculares, fotografia, cinema e mídia digital. A idéia é aplicar técnicas de análise de dados computacionais e projeção de dados que já se tornaram rotina nas ciências: processamento de dados, agrupamento seletivo de dados e outros aos "dados" da cultura visual, ou seja, às imagens culturais.
Da mesma forma como cientistas que aplicam essas técnicas a massivas quantidades de dados para observar novos padrões, podemos analisar a imagética de períodos artísticos e históricos por completo: toda a pintura holandesa do século XVII, todas as fotografias vernaculares do século XIX disponibilizadas em coleções de museus ou, algum dia, todo o cinema do século XX.
Texto da proposta:
Comunidades científicas estão gastando quantias significativas no desenvolvimento de dispositivos de visualização de grande escala, como o EVL LambdaVision no Calit2 onde se encontra meu novo laboratório....estou convencido que deveríamos seguir a prática dos cientistas para podermos analisar nossos próprios dados - imagens culturais em telas muito grandes como a Lambda Vision. O uso de telas em grandes formatos é especialmente útil quando queremos utilizar a visualização para observar conjuntos de imagens atuais - podendo dessa forma visualmente observar e examinar relações entre as milhares de imagens.
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Abril de 2007: o Calit2 e o CRCA proveem fundos para a criação do Software Studies Initiative
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Maio-Junho de 2007: respondendo ao desafio proposto por Larry Smarr para desenvolver novas aplicações para a HIPerWalll, Manovich e Wardrip-Fruin escrevem o artigo Cultural Analytics que amplia as ideias da proposta para o ACLS de 2005:
"Podemos criar medidas quantitativas para a inovação cultural? Podemos ter um mapa em tempo real da produção e do consumo cultural? Podemos visualizar fluxos de ideias culturais, imagens e tendências? Podemos representar visualmente como as preferências culturais e de estilo de vida (música, formas, design ou produtos) gradualmente se modificam ao longo do tempo?
"Atualmente as ciências, negócios, governos e outras agências estão baseadas em análises computacionais e na visualização de grandes quantidades de dados e fluxos de informação. Empregam análise de dados estatísticos, visualização da informação e visualização científica, visualização analítica e simulação. Acreditamos que é tempo de aplicarmos essas técnicas aos dados culturais. Grande parte desse conjunto de dados culturais já está disponível: resultado dos esforços de digitalização realizadas por museus, livrarias e companhias ao longo dos últimoas dez anos (pense na digitalização de livros realizada pelo Google e pela Amazon) e no explosivo crescimento de conteúdos culturais disponibilizados na web."
"As visualizações deveriam ser criadas para tirar o máximo proveito das gigantes telas em escala de gigapixels disponíveis hoje em dia - é isso que vem sendo construído no CALIT2."
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Abril de 2008: NEH cria um departamento de Humanidades Digital e anuncia um programa de apoio para Computação de Alta Performance para as Humanidades (Humanities High-Performance Computing -HHPC):
"A Computação de Alta Performance para as Humanidades faz referência ao uso de máquinas de alta performance em projetos nas áreas de ciências sociais e humanidades. Hoje em dia somente um pequeno número de pesquisadores está utilizando e tirando proveito da computação de alta performance. Mas, assim como as ciências tem começado a se utilizar de forma mais intensa ao longo dos anos do potencial da computação de alta performance, as humanidades estão, da mesma forma, também começando esse processo. Pesquisadores das humanidades quase sempre lidam com grandes quantidades de dados sem estrutura. Esses dados podem estar em forma de jornais históricos, livros, dados de eleições, fragmentos arqueológicos, conteúdos de áudio ou vídeo. A bolsa para a Computação de alta performance nas humanidades dá a oportunidade de organizar, analisar e melhor compreender, além de visualizar esses dados."
Novembro de 2008: O Grupo Software Studies Initiative é um dos 3 labs que ganham a bolsa HHPC
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Abril de 2008: um grupo de pesquisadores do Calit2, coordenados por Lev Manovich recebem uma bolsa Interdisciplinar da Chancelaria da UCSD para o desenvolvimento do ambiente da pesquisa Analítica Cultural: uma plataforma aberta para a Pesquisa em Humanidades Digitais que apoiará análises em tempo real de variadas formas de mídias visuais e de técnicas de mapeamento.
O grupo inicial é composto por:
Lev Manovich (Artes Visuais);
Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Comunicação);
Falko Kuester (Calit2);
Jim Hollan (Ciências Cognitivas).
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Janeiro de 2008: NEH and NSF anunciam a competição Digging Into Data. Bolsas com valores superiores a US$ 300.000,00 (trezentos mil dólares).
"A competição "Mergulhando nos Dados" é um apoio internacional financiado por quatro destacadas agências de pesquisa: o Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) da Inglaterra, o National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) dos Estados Unidos, o National Science Foundation (NSF) dos Estados Unidos e o Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) do Canadá."
"A criação de vastas quantidades de dados acessíveis na Internet e o desenvolvimento de técnicas para análise e visualização de largas escalas de dados nos levaram a descobertas memoráveis no campo da genética, da astronomia, entre outros e, mais importante, à conexão entre áreas acadêmicas distintas."
"Com livros, jornais, revistas científicas, filmes, obras de arte e músicas sendo digitalizadas em escala massiva, é possível aplicar técnicas de análise de dados às vastas coleções de nossas heranças culturais assim como aos dados científicos. Como essas técnicas poderão auxiliar os pesquisadores na formulação de novas questões e possibilitar novos insights sobre nosso mundo?"
Friday, March 13, 2009
Playpower covered in Wired
Jeremy Douglass (a Post-doctoral researcher with Software Studies) is one of the co-founders of Playpower.org, an an innovative non-profit organization developing learning games for an existing $10 TV-computers which are very popular in India. Software Studies is happy to collaborate with Playpower on their amazing and far-reaching research. In addition to Jeremy, playpower.org founders are Derek Lomas and Daniel Rehn who are both MFA students in Visual Arts Department at UCSD and researchers at Calit2. Their work is getting lots of international media coverage - including this article in Wired blogs:
$12 Computer: Playpower Wants to Save the World 8 Bits at a Time
By Priya Ganapati March 11, 2009 | Wired blogs
Playpower.org's Jeremy Douglass and Derek Lomas speak with Visicalc founder Bob Frankston (center) about their plans to make educational games for 8-bit computers like the one in the foreground. ETECH 2009, San Jose. [Photo by Wired editor Dylan Tweney]
http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1472
$12 Computer: Playpower Wants to Save the World 8 Bits at a Time
By Priya Ganapati March 11, 2009 | Wired blogs
Playpower.org's Jeremy Douglass and Derek Lomas speak with Visicalc founder Bob Frankston (center) about their plans to make educational games for 8-bit computers like the one in the foreground. ETECH 2009, San Jose. [Photo by Wired editor Dylan Tweney]
http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1472
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Playpower na Wired
Jeremy Douglass (pesquisador de Pós-doutorado junto ao grupo de Software Studies) é co-fundador do projeto Playpower.org, uma organização sem fins lucrativos inovadora que desenvolve jogos de aprendizagem para consoles (computadores ligados a uma TV) já existentes de US$ 10,00 (dez dólares), muito populares na Índia. O grupo de Software Studies sente-se honrado em colaborar com o projeto Playpower em seus amplos e ousados objetivos de pesquisa. Além de Jeremy, os fundadores do projeto são Derek Lomas and Daniel Rehn, ambos cursando o MFA em Artes Visuais na UCSD e pesquisadores do CALIT2. O Grupo de Software Studies no Brasil vem também desenvolvendo contéudo para o console, em parceria com Laboratórios e Universidades no país. O trabalho desenvolvido pela equipe do Playpower vem alcançando ampla repercussão internacional, incluindo esse artigo recente publicado pela revista Wired no mês de março de 2009:
$12 Computer: Playpower Wants to Save the World 8 Bits at a Time
By Priya Ganapati March 11, 2009 | Wired blogs
Os fundadores do projeto Playpower.org, Jeremy Douglass e Derek Lomas conversam com o criador do software Visicalc Bob Frankston (centro) sobre seus planos de criar jogos educacionais para computadors de 8-bits. ETECH 2009, San José. [Foto Wired Dylan Tweney]
Veja mais em: (em inglês)
http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1472
Thursday, March 5, 2009
DAC 2009: Track in Software / Platform Studies
The Software Studies Initiative is soliciting submissions to the "Software / Platform Studies" theme track of Digital Arts and Culture 2009. Please submit proposals no later than the May 1st deadline. Final papers will be due Oct 1 and the conference will be held December 2009 at UC Irvine, California. Here is the theme call:
Software/ Platform Studies
Software is the engine that drives cyberculture, new media, and digital art - a layer of control and communication that permeates contemporary culture. Platforms are the hardware and software relationships that enable and constrain software expressions. To investigate the logics of visualization, simulation, and representation in contemporary digital arts and culture is to engage in Software Studies and Platform Studies. The DAC09 Software and Platform Studies Theme invites submissions that explore digital art and culture through source codes, platform architectures, or similar engagements. Papers and panels exploring the emerging paradigms of critical code studies and the interpretation of algorithms are particularly encouraged.
Theme Leaders:
Jeremy Douglass, PhD. Researcher in Software Studies at UCSD.
jeremydouglass@gmail.com
Noah Wardrip-Fruin,Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Cruz.
nwf@ucsc.edu
DAC is a biannual -- 2005 was Copenhagen, Denmark -- 2007 was Perth, Australia -- and this December 2009 it will be held in Irvine, California, with the conference title "After Media: embodiment and context." Cross-submission to Software / Platform Studies and another theme track of the conference is allowed, including:
- A Space-Time of Ubiquity and Embeddedness
- After mobile media
- Cognition and creativity
- Embodiment and performativity
- Environment/ sustainability/ climate change
- Interdisciplinary pedagogy
- Sex and sexuality
- Software/ platform studies
For more details on all themes see the full DAC09 call for papers.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
DAC 2009: chamada para área de Estudos do Software e Plataformas
O Grupo de Software Studies solicita a submissão de artigos e painéis para a área dedicada aos Estudos do "Software/Plataformas" no evento Digital Arts and Culture 2009. Por favor envie sua proposta até o dia 01 de maio de 2009. Os artigos completos deverão ser enviados até o dia 01 de outubro e a conferência acontecerá em dezembro de 2009 na Universidade da Califórnia, Irvine. Os temas são:
Estudos do Software/ Plataformas
O software é a máquina que opera a cibercultura, as novas mídias e a arte digital - uma camada de controle e comunicação que permeia a cultura contemporânea. A plataforma é a relação entre o hardware e o software que permite e restringe a expressão do software. Investigar a lógica da visualização, simulação e representação na arte e na cultura digital contemporânea é se envolver com os Estudos do Sofware e das Plataformas. A chamada de artigos para a área de Estudos do Software e Plataformas no DAC 2009 tem como objetivo receber trabalhos que explorem a arte digital e a cultura através dos códigos fontes, das arquiteturas das plataformas ou formas similares. Artigos e painéis explorando os paradigmas emergentes da crítica dos estudos do código e a interpretação dos algoritmos são particularmente encorajados.
Líderes da área:
Jeremy Douglass, PhD. Pesquisador do grupo de Software Studies na UCSD.
jeremydouglass@gmail.com
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Professor Assistente, Departamento de Ciência da Computação, University of California, Santa Cruz.
nwf@ucsc.edu
O DAC é um encontro bienal - em 2005 aconteceu em Copenhagen, Dinamarca, em 2007 em Perth, Austrália e em dezembro deste ano acontecerá em Irvine, na Califórnia, tendo como título "Depois da mídia: materialização e contexto". Aplicações para temas que se entrecruzam nas áreas de Estudos do Software e Plataformas são permitidas, incluindo:
- O espaço-tempo da ubiqüidade e da incorporação
- Depois das mídias móveis
- Cognição e criatividade
- Incorporação e performatividade
- Ambiente/ sustentabilidade/ mudança climática
- Pedagogia Interdisciplinar
- Sexo e sexualidade
- Estudos do Software/ plataformas
Para mais detalhes, acesse o Call for Paper completo em: DAC09 call for papers.
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