Making Data: Materializing Digital Information

Length: 280 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publication Date: 2022-04-21
ISBN-10: 135013323X
ISBN-13: 9781350133235
Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)

For many outside of the scientific community, big data and the forms it takes, such as statistical lists, spreadsheets and graphs, often seem abstract and unintelligible. This book investigates how digital fabrication and traditional making approaches are being used to present data in newly engaging and interesting ways.

The first part of the book introduces the basic premise of the data object and the concept of making digital data into a physical form. Contributors cover topics such as biometrics, new technology, the economics of data and open and community uses of data. The second part presents a selection of exemplar forms and contexts for the application of data-objects, such as smart surfaces, smart cities, augmented reality techniques and next generation technical interfaces that blend physical and digital elements.

Making Data delivers the importance and likely future prevalence of physical representations of data. It explores the creative methods, processes, theories and cultural histories of making physical representations of information and proposes that the making of data into physical objects is the next important development in the data visualisation phenomenon.

Cover
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Contents
List of figures
List of contributing authors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION ONE MAKING DATA: THEORIES
    1 Data-objects: Thinking with your hands
    2 Shifting data between the material and the virtual is not an immaterial matter
    3 Data as environment: Physicalization strategies for communicating environmental data
    4 Designing explanations of data-based interactions in socio-technical systems
    5 Moving data: Visualizing human and non-human movement artistically
SECTION TWO MAKING DATA: PRACTICES
    6 Uncanny landscapes: Tactile and experiential encounters with ecological data
    7 Exploring digital-material hybridity in the post-digital museum
    8 Socio-material translations of data and value(s)
    9 Personal data manifestation: A tangible poetics of data
    10 Data and emotion: The climate change object
SECTION THREE MAKING DATA: TECHNIQUES
    11 Hybrid data constructs: Interacting with biomedical data in augmented spaces
    12 Sonic data physicalization
    13 Making with climate data: Materiality, metaphor and engagement
    14 Waterfalls as a form of AI-based feedback for creativity support
    15 Data as action: Constructing dynamic data physicalizations
SECTION FOUR MAKING DATA: TRAJECTORIES
    16 Making data: The next generation
Index
Imprint