today i went to decode an exhibition of digital media at the v&a museum in london. the exhibition nicely combines science, art, & web 2.0 and gets exponentially better as one walks through the gallery. worth a visit! here is a nice post. bbc video. a list of my favorites follows:
“daniel rozin’s weave mirror uses 768 motorised laminated c-shaped prints which go from light to dark. the user stands in front of a screen: the shadow they cast behind them is then translated into a ghostly portrait on the weave mirror as each element whirrs and clanks into place acting as a mechanical pixel”
aaron koblin’s flight patterns, tracking plane journeys across North America over a single day. beautiful simplistic visual stylization
radiohead’s house of cards video
and for web 2.0 folks:
we feel fine
“jonathan harris and sep kamvar’s we feel fine filters the data firehose of the world’s weblogs, identifying and displaying statements of emotion as coloured, clickable onscreen bubbles.”
troika’s spinning zoetrope of unintelligible code and brief, poetic phrases depicting snatches of london lives (“belgravia/repossessed/lamborghini/she left”),
sensity
sensity involves collecting data across the city of london using sensor networks. the data is then visualized to “make art.”
more on decode: flickr imgs | wired review