Information Is Beautiful

Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements



infoViz, web 2.0

Glioma


“A glioma is a type of tumor that starts in the brain or spine. It is called a glioma because it arises from glial cells. The most common site of gliomas is the brain.”


Glioma of the left parietal lobe. CT scan with contrast enhancement.



astrocytes, brain, glia

David Cage’s Heavy Rain


Cage estimates that the game has roughly as much content as five feature films.  “We don’t have ‘game over’ situations,” says Cage. “If you die as one character, you can play through to a different ending with the others. We saw the game as a journey, not like a series of obstacles that you need to go through. The point is for the experience to change when you change your actions.”



3D, game, interactive, narrative, writing

Sachiko Kodama

Protrude, Flow (2001) (Detail), in collaboration with Minako Takeno



abstract, art, installation, magnet, sculpture

Leaf Nail Magnet



3D, abstract, animation, jhave, magnet

Caleb Charland

“Wonder is a state of mind somewhere between knowledge and uncertainty.”



abstract, light, magnet, photography, play

if:book: what’s the word’s worth on the world wide web?

Mark Amerika: “The most successful writer-personas now and into the future -? at least those interested in “making a living” as you put it -? will be those who can take on varying flux personas via the act of writing.”



digital poetics, performance, writing

Nick van Woert



Eclipse 8
Plaster bust and plastic
70x53x17 cm



3D, abstract, materiality, sculpture

boranj


bor • anj | ‘bôrənj; ‘bär- |
adjective

1. having the qualities of an inelegant iterative step that works
    but will eventually be replaced by something better.
2. of or like an evolutionary step.
3. having both functional and awkward qualities.

‘boranj’ is a study in the spread of ideas; an experiment in cultural evolution and idea (or meme) penetration.
We want to see if and how a word can spread from nothing into ubiquitous acceptance, so we created ‘boranj.’



activist, epistemology, ideas, memes

Nicholas Felton | Feltron Annual Report


“Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience.”



abstract, infoViz, memory, writing

Anatol Knotek

Visuelle Poesie



concrete, digital poetics, vispo

Mandelbulb

The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal



3D, fractal, neurogenesis

Homo Futurus


“… a documentary about a controversial theory regarding the mechanism that drove the evolution of humans from primates to modern man; challenging the presently accepted evolutionary premise. It also speculates on humanity’s future evolutionary path.”



evolution, fluxus, fractal, language, neurogenesis, topology

Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy


Cornucopia … is a three dimensional printer for food



3D, food, meat, writing

Zimoun

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.5

zimoun.ch



art, artist, installation

Keiichi Matsuda

“The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.”



architecture, augmented, video

Seeper



3D architectural projection mapping



3D, architecture, art, digital poetics, installation, video

celeste boursier-mougenot



from here to ear (2007-09) : a flock of zebra finches with electric guitars


watch on youtube



art, bird, installation, interactive, music

The Third & The Seventh



“A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces.”

Watch it on Vimeo



3D, architecture, motion graphics, simulation

BOULDER PAVEMENT



aggregator, art, magazine, web 2.0

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