The September 05 gatepage
for artport, the Whitney Museum's portal to Internet art
features
computational information design | sketches
by Ben Fry
http://artport.whitney.org
Ben Fry's computational information design sketches combine graphic design,=
statistics, computer science and other related fields to address complex d=
ata sets. Featured on the artport gatepage are four sketches:
"isometricblocks"
compares the genetic data of several people.
"distellamap"
looks at the operation of code in Atari 2600 games. This is a dual reprise =
of Fry's "dismap" and "mariosoup" pieces that explore the code of cartridge=
games, and how the graphics are mixed in.
"salary vs. performance"
visualizes what baseball teams are spending in 2005, and how it changes ove=
r the course of the season.
"zipdecode"
geographically positions u.s. postal codes.
Ben Fry received his doctoral degree at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his=
research focused on methods of visualizing large amounts of data from dyna=
mic information sources. His current research involves the visualization of=
genetic data at the Eli & Edyth Broad Insitute of MIT & Harvard.
His work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial in 2002 and the Cooper Hewi=
tt Design Triennial in 2003. Other work has appeared in the Museum of Moder=
n Art in New York, at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, and in the films "M=
inority Report" and "The Hulk." With Casey Reas of UCLA, he is currently de=
veloping Processing, an environment for teaching computational design and s=
ketching interactive media software.
artport gatepage Sept. 05: Ben Fry -- computational information design | sketches
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