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VISUALIZATIONS
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Wind Map (2012-2018)
With Fernanda Viégas
The wind map is a living portrait of wind currents over the U.S.
The ever-changing currents create a mesmerizing animation. The piece
was the first web artwork in the permanent collection of NY MoMA.
Read more.
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Bloom (2013)
With Ken Goldberg and Fernanda Viégas
Bloom transforms seismic data into an exuberant display of color, and
has been displayed as both a physical installation and online application.
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Art of Reproduction (2011)
With Fernanda Viégas
The web can seem like the perfect museum, holding all the world's art.
Yet an internet search for any famous artwork will yield many images, often
very different. The Art of Reproduction is a series of collages that
visualize the discrepancies between these alternate realities.
Read more.
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Flickr Flow (2009)
With Fernanda Viégas
Flickr Flow is an experiment whose materials are color and time. Taking
year-round photos of the Boston Common as raw materials, we created a
visualization of the progression of Massachusetts seasons.
Read more.
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Fleshmap (2008)
With Fernanda Viégas
Fleshmap is an inquiry into human desire, its collective shape and individual expressions. In a series of artistic studies, Fernanda Viégas and I explore the relationship between the body and its visual and verbal representation.
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Thinking Machine (2003-2008)
With Marek Walczak
Thinking Machine explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play
chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process
visible on the board before you.
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Color Code (2005)
The artwork is an interactive map of more than 33,000 words. Each word has
been assigned a color based on the average color of images found by a
search engine. The words are then grouped by meaning, forming patterns
that comprise an atlas of our lexicon.
View the project here. (Originally on AIGA site.)
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Shape of Song (2001-2002)
What does music look like? The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question.
The work exists as a web site and a series of prints.
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Idea Line (2001)
The first web commission by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Idea Line is
a visualization of the history of software and internet art.
View the Idea Line.
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The Secret Lives of Numbers (2002)
Golan Levin et al.
I helped with the visualization in this piece. (Golan Levin was the principal artist.)
The artwork displays the "popularity" of the numbers from 1 to 1,000,000, as determined
by an internet search engine. The result is an unusual and detailed view of our culture.
Read more on Golan's site or
visit the artwork.
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COLLAGE AND VISUAL POETRY
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Luscious (2010)
With Fernanda Viégas
Luscious pays homage to fashion designers and photographers, those who compose rousing images of light and color that fill the pages of glossy magazines. The piece is our attempt to distill their visions into abstract compositions.
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Noplace (2008)
With Marek Walczak, Jon Feinberg, Rory Solomon
A series of physical and online art installations exploring visions of
paradise. The artwork takes feeds from networked society -- images, sound
and text -- as raw material to generate shared and personal utopias. An
initial installation premiered at the National Art Museum of China in
Beijing in 2008; Noplace Online for the Tate, London, premiered in
fall 2008.
Read more.
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Apartment (2001-2004)
With Marek Walczak and Jonathan Feinberg
Apartment is a series of closely related works exploring the relation
between language and space, building 2D and 3D "apartments" in response to
the viewer's typing. Versions of Apartment have been exhibited online
and in physical installations in museums.
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City Collage (2004)
With Marek Walczak and Jakub Segen
CityCollage uses the viewer's own image as a palette to create a painterly
image, linking the viewer with the landscape. The installation trains one
video camera at the private gallery space, another at the city street
outside. Each time movement is detected in the private sphere, a new
streetscape is created from the raw material of the gallery image.
Read more on MW2MW.com.
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Photoharmonica (2004)
A tool for creating live "performance collage." This piece made its debut
at Ars Electronica in 2004. A video of Photoharmonica is used
on the CD
Images 4 Music. You can also
view some stills from the piece.
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Associogram (2003)
Generate your own animated, evolving visual poetry from word associations.
Associogram was shown at Ars Electronica in 2003.
View screenshot
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Third Person (2003)
With Marek Walczak and Jakub Segen
Third Person is a video installation which inserts the viewer into a new
social context within the real space of the gallery. You are presented
with your own live image, in a video feed incorporating recorded clips of
Third Persons. The present is overlaid on the past, rendering previous
viewers as companions in contemplation of the artwork.
Third Person was shown at the London ICA in 2003.
Read more on MW2MW.com.
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DATA COLLECTIONS
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WIRED splash page (2008)
With Fernanda Viégas
For its 15th anniversary, WIRED magazine asked us for a splash page
that celebrated its history.
We immediately thought of the bold colors
the magazine is famous for, and created a visualization of
every palette used in 15 years of cover art.
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Paste (2007)
With Marek Walczak
Whatever is in your clipboard, something that’s on your mind or just a
distraction, you Paste. Paste collects users' ctrl-V, option-V or
middle-button press, making visible a traditionally unseen layer of
information. The minutiae of collective consciousness forms a shared
narrative.
Online commission of Rhizome, currently offline for repairs: the spammers
were flooding it. Back soon!
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Copernica (2001)
A commission of the NASA art program, Copernica is a visualization of a collection
of previous art created under the auspices of NASA. This piece was done in
conjunction with Rhizome.org.
View Copernica.
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Starrynight (1999)
With Alex Galloway and Mark Tribe
An early visualization of the texts in the Rhizome.org database.
Each text was represented as a star, and similar texts were linked into constellations.
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Spiral (1999)
A second visualization of the Rhizome database, using a spiral to represent time.
Currently offline.
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WonderWalker (2000)
With Marek Walczak
An online commission of the Walker Art Center, WonderWalker reimagines the
16th/17th-century Wunderkammer as a communal collection space -- a
phantasmagoria of web objects. Anyone can be a collector. You become one
by dragging a button to your browser’s toolbar. Then anytime you browse
and something catches your eye, just add that to the collection as an icon
on a map.
View Wonderwalker.
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DYNAMIC ABSTRACTION
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Shortcut (1997)
An minimalist visual animation which seeks a kind of "suspenseful algorithm."
View the shortcut.
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CODeDOC (2002)
An online exhibition at the Whitney Museum, curated by Christiane Paul.
Artists were asked to write a short program that would "connect three points,"
and post both the running program and the code. In addition to my main
contribution to the show--which emphasized how brief code can create great complexity--I
"remixed" works by other artists, as can be seen
here and
here.
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Sand Shrimp (2000)
For the Singlecell project
curated by Golan Levin, I created this applet in which form is only made evident
through motion. It has the unusual property that any screenshot looks like
random noise, although shapes are evident when you interact with it.
View Sand Shrimp.
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Bewitched (1997)
In 1997 I began experimenting with software art. The bewitched.com site
held these early efforts, including the signature animated inkblot.
Read more.
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