digital art ... displaying digitally

where do art and informationi intersect? Two presentations at ichim05 explored the possibilities for using digital artistic strategies to engage visitors with the more abstract notions of content and its presentation [visualization].

George Legrady's installation in the Seattle Public Library

Making the Visible Invisible

http://www.georgelegrady.com/ (under projects)

- a beginning of the kind of data visualization that is possible based on collections

ars electronical futurelab presentation

Gulliver's World

http://www.aec.at/en/futurelab/projects_sub.asp?iProjectID=12800

an interactive 3-D virtual world that encourages participation and cross-over between the virtual and the real, demystifying the technology and bridging the division.

Media Art on the facade of the Museum of the Future, or SAP Berlin headquarters provide models for ways to visualize the contents of collecting institutions that encourage a new kind of transparency.