Mapping data visually
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008A notable rising net artists has to be Aaron Koblin with projects such as “The Sheep Market” and most inspiring to my field of research House of Card’s Music video, interactive data viewer, and source code - http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/rh/index.html. “With Director James Frost (Zoo) and a bunch of other great people, lasers and sensors were used to create a 3D data “music video” for the band Radiohead.
The project was launched as an Open Source project on Google Code. An interactive online viewer (created with Aaron Meyers) allows for interactive 3D investigation of the data online”. By visiting the website you can explore the radio head video in a 3d environment. The video below gives a great explanation to how the video was created and its purpose.
BBC data visualisations:
