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New Techniques for Visualizing Large Image and Video Collections

Lev Manovich — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:49:02 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

visualization

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images

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video

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analytics

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digital image processing

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UCSD

Abstract:

Many museums and media archives have already digitized large parts of their collections, and we may expect even more images and video to become digitally available in the near future. Are the standard web and desktop interfaces for accessing digital collections adequate for understanding these collections? Popular interfaces for showing images and video such as list, gallery, grid, and slide do now allow us to see the contents of a whole collection. These interfaces usually only display a few items at a time, regardless of whether you are in a browsing mode, or in a search mode. Because we are not able to see a collection as a whole, we can’t compare sets images or videos to each other, notice patterns of change over time, or understand parts of the collection in relation to the whole.

Graphing and visualization tools offer a range of visual techniques designed to reveal patterns in data. However, these tools have their own limitations. A key principle, which underlies the creation of graphs and information visualizations, is the representation of data using points, bars, lines, and similar graphical primitives. This principle has remained unchanged from the earliest statistical graphics of the early 19th century to contemporary interactive visualization software which can work with large data sets. Although such representations make clear the relationships in a data set, they also hide the objects behind the data from the user.

Since 2008, our lab (Software Studies Initiative, http://www.softwarestudies.com) at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has been developing visual techniques that combine the strengths of media viewing applications and graphing and visualization applications. Like the latter, they create graphs to show relationships and patterns in a data set. However, while plot making software can only display data as points, lines or other graphic primitives, our software can show all the images in a collection superimposed on a graph. We call this method “media visualization.”

To date, we have already successfully applied our techniques to artworks, photos films, video games, comics, magazines, books, and other media content. Examples include all paintings by van Gogh, one million pages from manga series, hundreds of thousands of pages from 19th century American newspapers, and hundreds of hours of video gameplay. Our past and present collaborators include Getty Museum, Library of Congress, Austrian Film Museum, Magnum Photos, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Image and other institutions who are interested in using our methodology with their media collections. Starting in the Fall 2011, we are releasing our fully documented tools we developed under open source license.

In our demonstration, we will show the examples of our visualization and explain our key techniques for creating media visualizations.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

MW2012 Demonstrations I

Site:

http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2008/09/cultural-analytics.html

Authors:

Lev Manovich

Delivering Gallery Interactives using Web Technologies

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:52 +0000

Bates, E. (2010). Delivering Gallery Interactives using Web Technologies. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

Sharing Stories: Putting the Illinois State Museum Audio-Video Barn Online

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:47 +0000

Schroeder, E. (2010). Sharing Stories: Putting the Illinois State Museum Audio-Video Barn Online. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

Moving the Museum to the Medium: YouTube Play and the Guggenheim

nsemel — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:50:47 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

youtube

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video

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social media

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metrics

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art

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collaboration

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presentation

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global

Abstract:

In June 2010, the Guggenheim Museum and YouTube, in collaboration with HP and Intel, launched YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video, a project conceived to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. Drawing on the Guggenheim’s ongoing commitment to new media, the goal of the project was not to discover what’s ‘now,’ but what’s next in creative
video.

Over 23,000 video submissions were received from creators in 91 countries around the world, which were considered by the Guggenheim curatorial team for the shortlist. A jury of experts comprising celebrated figures from the worlds of art, design, film, and entertainment reviewed the submissions for inclusion in the first biennial of creative video organized by a major museum of contemporary art. The 25 videos were on view in the Guggenheim Museum for four days and a live event celebrating the work was lived streamed to the world on youtube.com/play.

In conjunction with the project, the Guggenheim curatorial team launched The Take Blog (guggenheim.org/thetake), a space on the Guggenheim’s Web site for commentary and discussion by the museum’s invited guests, staff, and Web site visitors featuring writings by scholars, artists, and other experts. The blog provided a
space for the expert community to elevate the conversation surrounding the project and provided a discussion platform for topics including online video, digital content, the history of video art, and the effects of the Internet on art and culture.

Social media was the primary tool used to engage online audiences with The Take Blog over the four-month life of the YouTube Play project and beyond, along with e-mail marketing and on-site computer kiosks at the museum. Strategic social media collaboration with YouTube and HP served to drive growth and attract new audiences on the Guggenheim’s social media channels and Web site. From July 1-Nov 1, 2010, both Facebook and Twitter amassed over 76,000 new followers, a 94% and 67% increase respectively, while the blog attracted over 67,000 visitors--more than
major exhibition microsites such as Kandinsky and Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward.

In addition, the YouTube Play Web site garnered more than 10 million online viewers the day of the live event—a greater number of views than the Guggenheim Web site received the entire year.
To date, the project has attracted over 23 million viewers to the YouTube Play Web site, providing a platform to highlight some of the most innovative work being produced online today. These unfathomable statistics were achieved through tapping into YouTube, HP and Intel’s deep technological resources, the Guggenheim’s expertise in new media, and the collective communications outreach in the global social space.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstration V

Site:

http://www.youtube.com/play

Authors:

Nora Semel

Francesca Merlino

Bali Temple Explorer: An interactive kiosk and site with 200 video loops – Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

dclearwaters — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:45:40 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

interactive

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video

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Asia

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Bali

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Asian Art Museum

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living culture

Abstract:

www.Balitempleexplorer.com lets you explore a temple in Bali, shown with over 200 HD video loops: allowing you the emotional impact of film and video, plus the web-like ability to explore the temple at your own pace. Created for the special exhibition Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.

When first envisioning the special exhibition, Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance, (on view at the Asian Art Museum February 25 through September 11, 2011) associate curator of Southeast Asian art Natasha Reichle wanted to collaborate with education staff to enhance the ritual and performing arts aspects of the exhibition. In addition to a robust series of live programs, the team set out to develop a variety of videos to bring the living culture of Bali to life.

Martin Percy collaborated with Reichle and education director Deborah Clearwaters to create www.BaliTempleExplorer.com, which will be embedded into the museum’s special exhibition microsite still under construction, and at a dedicated kiosk near the galleries. Martin’s work centers on combining HD video and interactivity to vividly portray real life online – especially with regards to the display of art. Martin has won two BAFTA nominations, three Emmy nominations, eight Webby nominations and ten Webby honorees for interactive video work, much of it for Tate (for example: www.barbarasgarden.org).

The site goes live in late January 2011. The URL currently displays five videos that give a sense of how the site will look and feel. We propose to demonstrate the fully interactive version at Museums and the Web 2011.

Apart from a few thumbnails, there is not one single still photo on the Bali site. Everything is done with video loops. The trees, water, and people move. You can look at any scene for as long as you like. At any time, you can click on hotspots which link to other video loops. Some of the loops have linear videos attached to them which don't repeat, furthering the sense of a vivid, lifelike experience.

At any time, you can click to listen to commentary about the temple, including interviews with the priest of the temple and the head of the local village. These first-person Balinese voices bring an additional immediacy to the project.

To make the site accessible to all users, we will provide a text-and-jpeg version of the site, as well as a linear video version.

The text-and-jpeg page is interesting, but it doesn't feel like you're looking at the temple in real life. And while the linear video version is more emotionally compelling, it suffers from the "tyranny of the edit": the director chooses what you look at, and for how long. You can't follow your own interests at your own pace. So it's not like visiting the temple in real life.

The fully interactive site attempts to combine the strengths of video and interactivity to make a presentation which, compared with more commonly-used online methods, is far more effective at vividly evoking the emotions and sensations of looking at culture in real life.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations I

Site:

http://www.balitempleexplorer.com

Authors:

Deborah Clearwaters

Martin Percy

One-to-one: supporting artist-visitor dialogue

silviaf — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:40:05 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

One-to-one: supporting artist-visitor dialogue

Keywords:

kiosk

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website

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dialogue

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video

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artist

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twitter

Abstract:

Artists have been using the Internet since the early days of the Web, but no-one has done anything quite like Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who uses technology, Twitter in particular, as a way of sharing his artistic and political life with people all around the world.

Alongside his Unilever Series installation at Tate Modern, which opens October 12th 2010, the Turbine Hall has also been transformed into a hub of global conversation. Here, next to the artwork, a series of booths have been installed where the artist asks visitors to record a video, either asking him a question or answering one of his questions. These videos are then published on a dedicated website for all to see and to also engage those not able to visit in person. Each week until May 2011, Ai Weiwei is selecting videos to respond to and posting his video or text responses on the website, thus creating a joyful, worldwide dialogue between the artist and the visitors. People outside the museum can also join in the conversation via Twitter. Ai Weiwei will be monitoring and replying to postings with the hashtag #tateaww.

In this paper, we will describe in detail the principles, philosophy and technology behind the One-to-One with the artist project. Recent advances in the technology made it possible to realize the project’s ambitions in under eight weeks. We will also report on the effective usage of the kiosks and website by both the visitors and the artist, the challenges encountered in the development and implementation process, as well as the results of the evaluation that will be carried out in the upcoming months.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

User-Generated Community

Authors:

Silvia Filippini Fantoni

Kirstie Beaven

Ben Rubinstein

Web Archiving Workshop

Chloé Martin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:13:08 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

What If Web Archiving Were as Reliable As Pushing a Simple Button?

Keywords:

Web archive

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preservation

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internet

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collection

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video

Abstract:

Web content is, by nature, ephemeral: sites are constantly disappearing, others are frequently updated, involving the removal of online information. This media continues to grow in our society: many museums and cultural heritage institutions are developing websites with a variety of content (videos, forums, blogs, online exhibitions, catalogues) creating a large media-centric websphere of unique value. Like any other media before, it is becoming essential to preserve this websphere of cultural and historical value. From this point of view, Web archiving is becoming a key part of today's heritage conservation.

In this one-hour workshop, we will present the main aspects of web archiving:

Why is it so important to collect and preserve web material?
What does Web archiving mean?
How to plan a web archiving project? Investment, Selection, Frequency, Quality Assurance
Example of one method: the shared platform, Archivethe.net, helps institutions to easily and quickly start collecting websites including dynamic content and rich media, enabling navigation in past versions of a website, as if it was still live.
Exploration of the typology of resources. A special focus will be done on videos.
How to give an access on this archive?

Participants will be invited to share their own experiences, needs and issues about it.

Who should attend?

This workshop is appropriate for anyone with an interest in collecting and preserving born digital content (including websites). It does not assume technical expertise.

Archivists, Website Producers, Project Managers, Curator

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

Mini-Workshop on Web Archiving

Site:

http://archivethe.net/

Authors:

Chloé Martin

ArtBabble: A year's worth of lessons learned and thoughts about collaborative content platforms

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:39 +0000

Incandela, D., & Stein R. (2010). ArtBabble: A year's worth of lessons learned and thoughts about collaborative content platforms. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

Vodcasting: 5 easy steps to film an interview and get it online in a day!

jtrant — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:56:06 +0000

Samis, P., Svenonius T., Johnson T., Dance K., & Pau S. (2007). Vodcasting: 5 easy steps to film an interview and get it online in a day!. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings.