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  • Aesthetics of Information Visualization - Google Docs

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    on 2007-10-29

    • data
      visualization art is concerned with the anti-sublime. If
      Romantic artists thought of certain phenomena and effects as
      un-representable, as something which goes beyond the limits of human
      senses and reason, data visualization artists aim at precisely the
      opposite: to map such phenomena into a representation whose scale is
      comparable to the scales of human perception and cognition
    • distinguishing the “forest” from the “trees
  • Networked_Performance — Warren Sack

    • this chapter provides an art historical and philosophical context for understanding information visualization projects undertaken as artistic research
  • The Database as System and Cultural Form - Google Docs

    • the "data storehouses" of the
      oral cultures of the past were the elders who would pass down
      information from generation to generation
    • There is no digital art or new media object
      in the broadest sense that does not have a layer of code and
      algorithms, even if its physical and visual manifestation distracts
      from this underlying layer.
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  • New media and cultural form: narrative versus database (Monash University)

    • Like narrative, the database also represents a basic way of organising human experience
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