(photo: Heather Willems)
An Experimental Data Visualization for Art's Birthday
(collaboration with Daniel
Jolliffe)
Saturday January 17th, 2004, 8PM- midnight (Visible from the OSU oval while facing Hopkins Hall)
"Matthew Lewis and Daniel Jolliffe present their contribution to the Art's
Birthday celebration, an annual event to celebrate the presence of art
in our lives first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert
Filliou. Taking part in the Scrambled Bites data exchange project, we
will work with data fed over the Internet from specially designed
sculptures, devices and sensors made by artists in Australia, Japan,
Canada and Austria. From Ohio, we will be sending to the other artists
data representing activity in front of Hopkins, as well as the number
and strength of GPS satellites in orbit over our location. This mass
of data sources will be visualized in a video projection visible from
the outside of Hopkins. Part visualization, part data modeling
experiment, the resultant projection is a composite image of activity
across the network and closer to home."
Scrambled Bites Art's Birthday Coordinated by the Vancouver-based Western Front artist centre |