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Discussing his recent artworks alongside those by Abigail Reynolds, Lucy Kimbell and Christian Nold, the author examines emerging phenomenain the digital and wider fine arts whereby information visualization practices are approached as creative media. By laying bare points of convergence and divergence between artisticand scientific approaches, the article develops a number of arguments thathow how the pictures produced by information visualization may be reframed within wider aesthetic and critical frameworks. Thus the author explores how models of image production derived from processes of scientific inquiry expand possibilities for the visual arts to develop new types of hybrid images that consist of data grounded both in material realities and in symbolic and aesthetic elements.
Aesthetics of information visualization
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Right now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, there are a great number of artists working on, what could be called, projects of information visualization.“Information visualization,” as a named area of research and development, was originally an outgrowth of the pragmatics of contemporary science and engineering. Faced with huge volumes of data, scientists and engineers write computer programs to render data as images, making it possible to visually search for and scrutinize patterns in the data.
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Data analysis has long relied on visual representation as a means of understanding and conveying explanations. With the continuous advancement of computing technology, storage and processing capacities have significantly improved. Simultaneously, the democratization of technology has allowed for an increase in artistic contributions to data visualization, resulting in novel creative forms and alternative approaches compared to those found in the realm of science. This article examines the reciprocal influences between art and science within the field of data visualization. By analyzing literature from primary bibliographic databases and exploring the thriving community of practitioners that encompasses scientists, designers, artists, and other professionals, we provide a comprehensive overview of data visualization. Drawing upon historical examples from prehistory to the present, we explore various instances where art and science have jointly contributed to advancing the communication of phenomena and the formulation of data-driven inquiries. Additionally, we reflect on the challenges faced by data visualization and the opportunities that arise from them.
From abstract to actual: art and designer-like enquiries into data visualisation
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Analyzing data through infographics in contemporary arts
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Infographics have become common, especially with technological developments in the last decade, where the available data has become more accessible and needs to be visually organized through these charts. To find a relationship between text and image to the delivery of information within the space of contemporary arts through the relationship between the recipient and the artist and uploading the data, whether in a readable, audible, or even visual form. A method that the researcher relies on to link in a systematic way related to downloading and analyzing data within the artwork, and the researcher referred to the studies associated with sensory receptors and their role in perceiving the Artwork and their interaction with it through the physiology of vision and its role and linking it to the human brain engine, as well as the meeting point between each of the arts Contemporary and data that the artist seeks to enter through contemporary arts .
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Information visualization and the arts-science-social science interface
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HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2012
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