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)
   

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2. About me
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   Enrico Zimuel, aka Catodo
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   Computational artist and software engineer from Turin
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   BIG DIVER 2013
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   International speaker about creative coding and web
   programming
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   Co-author of “PHP Best Practices” and “Javascript Best
   Practices” books (in Italian) by FAG Edizioni Milano
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   Published some music projects with Kutmusic Records
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   For more information www.catodo.net
   

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3. Is it possible to make
   art using Big Data?
   

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4. Big Data Data visualization
   ?
   

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5. Computational Art
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   Computer Art / Digital Art / Electronic Art
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   Creative coding
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   Generative Art
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   Software Art
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   Net.art
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   Computer music / Generative music
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   Data Visualization / Information Visualization /
   Information Aesthetics
   

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7. Some examples
   of computational art &
   Big Data
   

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8. Listening Post, Mark Hansen + Ben Rubin, 2002-8
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns4Nm4G1l_g
   

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9. We Feel Fine, Jonathan Harris, 2006
   

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10. datamatics, Ryoji Ikeda, 2006/8
    https://vimeo.com/62242278
    

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11. Hope/Crisis, Jer Thorp, 2010
    http://blog.blprnt.com/
    

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12. (x)tree, Agnes Chavez & Alessandro Saccoia’s, 2012
    http://www.agneschavez.com/xtrees/series
    

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13. Golem (map), Jason Salavon, 2014
    http://www.salavon.com/work/golem-map/
    

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14. The Internet Map, Feb. 2015
    http://internet-map.net/
    

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15. One of mine art project:
    TweetJukeBox
    

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16. TweetJukeBox, Catodo, 2012
    http://www.catodo.net/tweetjukebox/
    

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17. How it works
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    Send a tweet with a song title, an artist name, a
    piece of lyrics, whatever, with the hashtag
    #tweetjukebox
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    The tweetjukebox will search the song on
    Youtube and play the audio in few seconds
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    Try now!
    

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18. Some references
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    R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, S. Ehmann, F. van Heerden, T. Tissot,
    Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design , Die Gestalten Verlag 2008
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    R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, T. Tissot, N. Bourquin,
    Data Flow 2: Visualising Information in Graphic Design , Die Gestalten Verlag 2010
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    David McCandless, Information is Beautiful, Collins 2012
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    Oliver Franklin, Eye-to-eye with Jason Salavon’s algorithm-produced art , WIRED, 2014
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    Nicola Triscott, Art in the age of “big data”, 2012
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    Charlie Stephens, Media Artists Use Art to Expose Real Truths Behind Big Data , PSFK 2015
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    Lev Manovich, Data Visualization and Computational Art History, Software Studies Initiative,
    Visual Art Department, UCSD, 2012
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    Phil Johnson, The art of Big Data, IT World, 2012
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    Narasu Rebbapragada, The art of numbers: Who knew Big Data could look so cool?,
    TechHive, 2013
    

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19. Thanks!
    Contacts:
    www.catodo.net
    @iamcatodo
    Creative Commons License
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
    

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