Recon Jet tech glasses are on the right track.

September 29, 2013 by · Leave a Comment 

Recon Jet has delivered a well designed interface.
This open platform heads-up display delivers information instantly, directly to your eye via a microcomputer and high-resolution widescreen display.
Specs: dual core processor, dedicated graphics, Wi-Fi, ANT+, Bluetooth, GPS, HD camera, and comprehensive sensor suite.

Sight Systems Scenario for Embedded Eye Technology

July 27, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

Scenario where humans may devolve to android levels of interactive relationships.

Ancient Cymatics Process to Create Visual Sound Patterns

November 29, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

Demonstration by Japanese artist Kenichi Kanazawa on how various frequencies of oscillating sounds create emerging visual patterns.
Higher frequencies generate a range of complex patterns.
(Audio track kicks in at 0:25)

Aaron Koblin Visualization Projects

May 25, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

Interface as message. A range of collaborative crowd-sourced visualization projects by Aaron Kolbin presented at TED 2011.

Tracking 18th-century “Social Network” Through Letters

February 21, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

Visual mapping of thousands of letters exchanged in the 18th century’s “Republic of Letters”, during the French Enlightenment. This network of intellectuals, linked innovative ideas of the Enlightenment across national borders and language barriers. Cultural thinkers like Voltaire, Leibniz, Rousseau, Linnaeus, Newton, Diderot.

Life as a Photoshop Document

October 26, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

When your life becomes an application’s fantasy.

Visualizing Pressible

August 10, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada. Using Processing, he created this animation, showing an evolving system over the span of a year.

About his work: “I’ll be working with data from Pressible, a network of sites published by Teachers College students, faculty and staff. I’m interested in looking at the growth of this system, and in examining intertextuality between content in a network with a broad range of research interests.”

Cultural Analytics: High-performance Computing and the Humanities

May 21, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Lev Manovich, UC San Diego, delivers a paradigm on the quantitative end in the humanities, Cultural Analytics. The project is Visualizing Patterns in Databases of Cultural Images and Video. The focus is on automatic analysis of visual and media culture: video games, mass media, visual art and cinema.

The intent is analyzing cultural documents through information visualization, currently limited to the study of formal qualities of historical works of Art.