Big Data & Computational Art

This is an introduction talk about the usage of Big Data in computational art. I did this short talk during the DataBeers meeting in Turin (Italy), 17th Feb. 2015, http://databeerstorino.tumblr.com/

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1. Big Data & Computational Art by Enrico “Catodo” Zimuel 17th February - Turin (Italy)
2. About me • Enrico Zimuel, aka Catodo • Computational artist and software engineer from Turin • BIG DIVER 2013 • International speaker about creative coding and web programming • Co-author of “PHP Best Practices” and “Javascript Best Practices” books (in Italian) by FAG Edizioni Milano • Published some music projects with Kutmusic Records • For more information www.catodo.net
3. Is it possible to make art using Big Data?
4. Big Data Data visualization ?
5. Computational Art • Computer Art / Digital Art / Electronic Art • Creative coding • Generative Art • Software Art • Net.art • Computer music / Generative music • Data Visualization / Information Visualization / Information Aesthetics
7. Some examples of computational art & Big Data
8. Listening Post, Mark Hansen + Ben Rubin, 2002-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns4Nm4G1l_g
9. We Feel Fine, Jonathan Harris, 2006
10. datamatics, Ryoji Ikeda, 2006/8 https://vimeo.com/62242278
11. Hope/Crisis, Jer Thorp, 2010 http://blog.blprnt.com/
12. (x)tree, Agnes Chavez & Alessandro Saccoia’s, 2012 http://www.agneschavez.com/xtrees/series
13. Golem (map), Jason Salavon, 2014 http://www.salavon.com/work/golem-map/
14. The Internet Map, Feb. 2015 http://internet-map.net/
15. One of mine art project: TweetJukeBox
16. TweetJukeBox, Catodo, 2012 http://www.catodo.net/tweetjukebox/
17. How it works • Send a tweet with a song title, an artist name, a piece of lyrics, whatever, with the hashtag #tweetjukebox • The tweetjukebox will search the song on Youtube and play the audio in few seconds • Try now!
18. Some references • R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, S. Ehmann, F. van Heerden, T. Tissot, Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design , Die Gestalten Verlag 2008 • R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, T. Tissot, N. Bourquin, Data Flow 2: Visualising Information in Graphic Design , Die Gestalten Verlag 2010 • David McCandless, Information is Beautiful, Collins 2012 • Oliver Franklin, Eye-to-eye with Jason Salavon’s algorithm-produced art , WIRED, 2014 • Nicola Triscott, Art in the age of “big data”, 2012 • Charlie Stephens, Media Artists Use Art to Expose Real Truths Behind Big Data , PSFK 2015 • Lev Manovich, Data Visualization and Computational Art History, Software Studies Initiative, Visual Art Department, UCSD, 2012 • Phil Johnson, The art of Big Data, IT World, 2012 • Narasu Rebbapragada, The art of numbers: Who knew Big Data could look so cool?, TechHive, 2013
19. Thanks! Contacts: www.catodo.net @iamcatodo Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International