Big Data & Computational Art

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Big Data & Computational Art by Enrico “Catodo” Zimuel 17th February - Turin (Italy)

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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

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Is it possible to make art using Big Data?

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Big Data Data visualization ?

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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

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Some examples of computational art & Big Data

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

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We Feel Fine, Jonathan Harris, 2006

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

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

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

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

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

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One of mine art project: TweetJukeBox

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

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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!

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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

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