A growing number of projects use information visualization to graph cultural patterns, relationships, and dynamics. The people who are doing this exciting work come from a variety of areas: digital art, media design, architecture, computer science, computer graphics, and others. The breadth of this new area of culture is inspiring - and also makes it hard to follow its growth. This is why we created Culturevis.
Culturevis brings you our
selection of the best projects accompanied by (highly
oriented!) critical annotations. You will also find a list
of resources for doing and
thinking about culture visualizations: software tools,
sources of data, critical texts. We also suggest a number
of preliminary genres in
order to help map this new field.
Today you are likely to find culture vis projects on the
web, in digital art exhibitions, or in lobbies of buildings
- but not yet in academia. @ Software
Studies Initiative we believe that interactive
visualization of cultural data also offers a new paradigm
for cultural research. We cal this vision Cultural Analytics. You can
read our white papers, check the projects we are working on, follow the
progress of an open software environment for interactive
analysis and visualizations of cultural data we are
building, and see how we use Cultural Analytics in the
classroom. We welcome your ideas and suggestions. If you have finished a new culture vis project which you think should be listed
on this site, let us
know.
Thanks for visiting!
Lev Manovich + Software Studies Initaitive Team
P.S. Culturevis is designed to
complement already existing sites which collect
growing numer of projects in information
visualization:
infosthetics.com
visualcomplexity
Viz4All
and also websites for shared visualization:
Manyeyes
data360
Swivel