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beauty in numbers : cultural context

Got a tweet from Carl Mala­mud today that led me to this arti­cle about Mar­tin Wat­ten­berg. It’s always great to read about a whole yarn­ball of my inter­ests at one time. Cul­ture, infor­ma­tion, visu­al­iza­tion, and the mean­ing we can bring to data by cre­at­ing con­text. See an ongo­ing project at the TATE in the UK. ( MW2MW is a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Marek Wal­czak and Mar­tin Wat­ten­berg. Started in 1997, both artists work inde­pen­dently but come together on long term projects such as Apart­ment, Won­der­walker, Think­ing Machine and Noplace.) http://www.mw2mw.com/

These exper­i­ments and jour­neys open up new ways to look at what we see each day in a new light.

The aes­thetic is a bit clumsy for my lik­ing still the work at the con­cep­tual level is very intrigu­ing and the visu­al­iza­tions shed light on the snap­shots he takes.

Take some time to enjoy these works. Love to know your thoughts.