Blogwatch: infosthetics.com
April 28th, 2008 by AndreInformation aesthetics is a fabulous website for information design and visualization. Whenever you need inspiration for visualizing sets of data or complex coherences, static or dynamic, you are very likely to find it here.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:26
didn’t know that site before, but i already like it
the project “i want you to want me”, which is shown on the site, is pretty cool. i just wonder if they don’t have problems concerning data-protection if they pull out real content from dating platforms…??
April 29th, 2008 at 8:46
I also just stumbled yesterday across “I want you to want me” – same video, different blog. On the one hand, I think, it is awesome – a simple well designed, semiotically consistent visualization – but on the other hand it is one of these projects that plays with the creativity of the viewer by “just” displaying and sorting externally gathered data. The eye candy effect is so prominent, but its “real” content is hidden. So to speak, a cheap trick. I haven’t decided if it is great or shallow. But it made me think a lot.
BTW: The site is great.
May 5th, 2008 at 19:41
“The use of a word determines its meaning”, is roughly the essence of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. Applied here: The term “information aesthetics” has over the last five years gained a totally new reputation. It used to be something strange and alien, in the 1960s. Now it names exciting experiments in digital media. It is the difference that turns computing machines into media events.