From Data to Digital Art: Animating Air Traffic, Texting and Thom Yorke

March 26th, 2010 by admin

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/25/Digital_Life_Design_2010_Maps

Digital media artist Aaron Koblin shows off his animated visualizations of flight traffic mapping, text message usage and other illustrated projects, including an animated version of Thom Yorke’s face created for an open source Radiohead video.

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This session on maps features Julieta Aranda (E-flux), Rosa Barba (Artist), Peter Hirshberg (The Conversation Group), Alexander Kluge (Director), Aaron Koblin (Google Creative Lab), Philippe Parreno (Artist), Josef Penninger (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Eric Rodenbeck (Stamen), Anri Sala (Artist) Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard Lab for Astrophysics) and Qiu Zhijie (China Academy of Art). Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery) moderates.

Aaron Koblin is an artist specializing in data visualization. His work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to depict cultural trends and emergent patterns. Koblin’s work has been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and TED. He received the National Science foundation’s first place award for science visualization and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Currently, Koblin is Technology Lead of Google’s Creative Lab where he helped to launch Chrome Experiments, a website showcasing JavaScript work by designers from around the world.

Duration : 0:8:8


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15 Responses to “From Data to Digital Art: Animating Air Traffic, Texting and Thom Yorke”

  1. MimzyMingiSakura19 Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    i just hope not to …
    i just hope not to much air traffic atoms hurts every human being on earth.

  2. MimzyMingiSakura19 Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    i always wonder …
    i always wonder what air traffic would look like but now i know lol

  3. arbiforumnow Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    Very cool man!
    Very cool man!

  4. RAMSEY1987 Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    it looks very nice …
    it looks very nice but can soemien give me real world apps?

  5. wildnine00 Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    Super cool.
    Super cool.

  6. lambus1234 Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    Are we becoming a …
    Are we becoming a global consciousness?

  7. RemiG2006 Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    It looks like brain …
    It looks like brain cell connections.

  8. Swamoez0rs Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    This is really cool …
    This is really cool! ;o
    And ye, would be great to see this in higher res.

  9. AlienTruth Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    @vujade1 I agree.
    @vujade1 I agree.

  10. LordNapalm Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    Very cool. Now make …
    Very cool. Now make it real time ;)

  11. RonDeKiller Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    Brilliant.
    Brilliant.

  12. 1RadicalOne Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    It is beautiful.
    It is beautiful.

  13. vujade1 Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    yea, foraTV itself …
    yea, foraTV itself should start pumping out all its vidz with HD options. such a good channel!

  14. chessdawgz Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    WOW!
    WOW!

  15. artformeandyou Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    better resolution …
    better resolution next time please