Currently reading.
Book PDF here.
February 14, 2011
Lev Manovich: What is Visualization?
Via manovich.net:
A new 8,000 word article “What is Visualization?” – an analysis of the key principles behind visualization practice during its first 300 years,and the new 21st century developments in ”media visualization.”
Download the article: manovich_visualization_2010.doc
February 14, 2011
Transmedia Talk Podcast
Recently started tuning in to this podcast from the WorkBook Project on transmedia storytelling and its future in the 21st century. Check out the latest episode here – it features filmmaker and story architect Lance Weiler and his transmedia experience Pandemic 1.0, which ran during this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
February 14, 2011
Introduction video to Collapsus – a transmedia project
Directed by Tommy Pallotta, Collapsus is a transmedia film experience about the energy crisis. The project shows us how the world will cope with the transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy by incorporating annotated narrative (fiction), documentary footage, and interactive data visualization components. In Collapsus, YOU are inside the story. YOU make the choices about the impending energy crisis.
Introduction by Tommy Pallotta:
Produced by Submarine Channel: http://vimeo.com/submarinechannel
My first interaction with this project and the future of transmedia storytelling possibilities was actually at PICNIC 2010, late last year in Amsterdam – check out my roundup from the conference.
February 14, 2011
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
Interactive Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
February 14, 2011
Hypercities
Hypercities – a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment.
Very cool to see New York in 1609 and travel forward in time (and in city layers) as it expanded over 400 years.
Go HERE!
February 14, 2011
Journalism in the Age of Data
A video report on data visualization as a storytelling medium.
February 13, 2011
Hello world!
It’s thesis research and organization time! Let’s see if this blog full of links, readings and other content I stumble upon will serve as a useful resource and map of ideas.
Data Visualization, circa 6200 BC
Konya Town Map, Turkey - earliest seed of data visualization?
data viz + transmedia storytelling thesis research 