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Francesco Cingolani est directeur du Mastère Spécialisé DESIGN by DATA, co-fondateur de l’espace de coworking et fablab VOLUMES et co-organisateur de la Fab Academy Paris.

Dans cette première rencontre il expliquera son parcours atypique d’enseignant, architecte, designer et entrepreneur et sa mission de faire évoluer le métier d’architecte vers celui de computational designer. En effet, les nouvelles technologies paramétriques transforment les concepteurs d’objets et d’architectures en concepteurs de processus algorithmiques qui questionnent profondément la relation entre l’homme et la technologie dans la création et la conception. Dans cette perspective, des nouvelles compétences sont ainsi indispensables et une nouvelle posture conceptuelle s’impose.

It’s easy to forget as we go about our day that we’re constantly surrounded by an invisible network of communication streams transmitting data from one place to another. While an empty space might look uninhabited to human eyes, it could actually host a crowded intersection of intangible electronic signals...

The Paris-based artists Léonore Bonaccini and Xavier Fourt form the artist-duo Bureau d´études. For the last several years, the French Group has been producing cartographies of contemporary political, social and economic systems. The visual analysis of transnational capitalism is based on extensive research and usually is presented in the form of large-sized murals.

‘Governing by Networks’, a chart produced in 2003, visualizes the mutual involvements and dependencies within the global media conglomerates. Revealing what normally remains invisible and contextualising apparently separate elements within a bigger whole, these visualizations of interests and cooperations re-symbolize the unseen and hidden.”

Clint Fulkerson is an artist from Maine who began his career with a degree in metal smithing. As a metalsmith he said he learned to become slow and precise which was the opposite to the painting he was doing at the time with broad gestural strokes. This became his new method of working and he now forces himself to “slow down and consider each moment in the present” which allows him to think about the influences of his work that range from science and math to information technology.With information technology, math, science and precision on his mind Fulkerson draws works that are remissent of tesselation (tiling) patterns that fit perfectly together. The drawings evolve based on rules that he has developed which define the placement of each mark. While his personal algorithms are the overriding design each work begins at a random place and then evolve as he works.

Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing formed the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, a crowdfunded effort to attempt to get in contact and gain control of the decommissioned spacecraft for the benefit of citizen science. The team raised almost $160,000 in funding, and assembled top space experts for the cause. In May 2014, they began successfully communicating with the spacecraft in advance of its August 10th lunar flyby.

This post was originally published on the blog for the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona. There is a great deal of excitement around the impact of ‘big data’ on innovation and growth: more data and improved analysis methods can help organisations to create new products and services, and optimise their decision-making capacity. In this […]

Interactive infographic about the evolution of browsers and the web. This infographic features major web browsers since 1993 such as Mosaic, Netscape, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and Chrome as well as key developments in web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos and interactive content. What the average user doesn't see is the interplay of web technologies and browsers that makes all this possible.

Over time, web technologies have evolved to give web developers the ability to create new generations of useful and immersive web experiences. Today's web is a result of the ongoing efforts of an open web community that helps define these web technologies, like HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL, and ensure that they're supported in all web browsers.

The colour bands in this visualisation represent the interaction between web technologies and browsers, which brings to life the many powerful web apps that we use daily.

Burak Arikan is a New York and Istanbul based artist working with complex networks. He takes the obvious social, economical, and political issues as input and runs through an abstract machinery, which generates network maps and algorithmic interfaces, results in performances, and procreates predictions to render inherent power relationships visible and discussable. Arikan’s software, prints, installations, and performances have been featured in numerous exhibitions internationally. Arikan is the founder of Graph Commons collaborative network mapping platform.

Arikan has presented his work internationally at institutions including Museum of Modern Art New York, Venice Architecture Biennale, São Paulo Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Berlin Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, Marrakech Biennial, Ashkal Alwan, Ars Electronica, Sonar, DEMF, Neuberger Museum of Art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Asia Art Archive, Borusan Contemporary, DEPO, ARTER, SALT and at independent venues such as Art Interactive Cambridge, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Hafriyat, Turbulence (online). He has lectured and did workshops at institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, New York University Interactive Telecommunications Program, The New School, Istanbul Technical University, Bogazici Universtiy, Sabanci University, and Istanbul Bilgi University.

Arikan completed his master’s degree at the MIT Media Laboratory in the Physical Language Workshop (PLW) led by John Maeda. Prior to MIT, he received an MA degree in Visual Communication Design from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2004, and a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Yildiz Technical University in 2001.

I present a number of core concepts from data science that are relevant to digital art history and the use of quantitative methods to study any cultural artifacts or processes in gen-eral. These concepts are objects, features, data, feature space, and dimension reduction.  These concepts enable computational exploration of both large and small visual cultural data. We can analyze relations between works on a single artist, many artists, all digitized production from a whole historical period, holdings in museum collections, collection metadata, or writings about art. The same concepts allow us to study contemporary vernacular visual media using massive social media content. (In our lab, we analyzed works by van Gogh, Mondrian, and Rothko, 6000 paintings by French Impressionists, 20,000 photographs from MoMA photo-graphy collection, one million manga pages from manga books, one million artworks of con-temporary non-professional artists, and over 13 million Instagram images from 16 global cities.) While data science techniques do not replace other art historical methods, they allow us to see familiar art historical material in new ways, and also to study contemporary digital visual culture...

Eric Fischer is data artist and software developer at Mapbox. He was an artist in residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and software engineer on the Android team at Google.

What’s big data? until not long ago, we looked at the abundance uf urban data as an enormous lists of numbers unconnected, difficult to manage or as an academic or research papers. But our way of seeing and understanding big data has changed, while we discover how some people, artists, researchers “geeks” use this urban data in order to create new ways of undesrtanding the society. ...  The pionner on mapping big data will attend to Technarte 2015 to talk about his work in Big Data and Art. ...

This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1374 genres by The Echo Nest. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.

The development of digital technologies has brought fundamental changes into our lives, cultures and societies. Social networking media user generated sites and peer-to peer networks have contributed to the development of a new participative culture where users have access to tools to create and share contents with peers.

As web users, we spend significant time online, searching for contents and visiting numerous web pages. These actions leave traces that can be collected, typically within web server logs. These data represent potential sources of valuable information for various private and public purposes.

Commercial companies have well understood how useful the above mentioned data can be if properly analyzed and transformed into exploitable information for their targeted audiences. Meaningful analysis, representation and comparison of actions, habits and navigation history of web users can help them to better understand and exploit the knowledge that these data contain.

However, in most cases, users cannot access the generated information that is kept private although the original data have been created by the users themselves...

Si Wikipedia peut être un cosmos à lui tout seul de par les millions d’articles et connaissances qui y sont stockés. Owen Cornec, jeune étudiant français, a eu l’idée géniale de créer un nouvel astre lumineux de l’encyclopédie en ligne pour en faire un immense réseau interactif d’articles nommé WikiGalaxy. Se retrouver dans un réseau d’étoiles fait de milliers d’informations n’est pas simple et les liens deviennent des chemins intersidéraux – presque performatif – menant d’une découverte à une autre. ....

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Where the internet came from, how it works, and how it's used by people around the world

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
There are now nearly 700 maps. Maps 1-366 are also available as PDF posters. Use the menu above to find a map of interest. In 2009 we added a series of maps of the world's population using a gridded cartogram approach: Worldmapper Population Atlas
If you are interested in more background on map projections, read the short introductions about Worldmapper and map projections and gridded cartograms as a map projection.