Friday, November 28, 2008

Dendrites on the 10th floor


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With a little bit of luck I will be able to pull this one day data viz, responsive art piece off. Above is overview of my interface project. Visit www.armyofclerks.net to see my inspiration if you like!
Also if you are more interested look up Gordon Pask, author of "An Approach to Cybernetics." He pioneered this method back in the 1950's - its coming back like polka dots with a vengeance.

I wanted to create a physical data visualization piece that accounted not just for peoples presence in a space but the totality of their being in that space including their: thoughts, feelings, plans, emotions and interactions. The sum of all the things we do as humans can not simply be represented as a node on a graph. Our presence is much more complicated than any one graph can depict. Here I use growing dendrite structures to represent the tapestry that we create by interacting with a space.