A growing number of projects use information visualization to graph cultural patterns, relationships, and dynamics. The people who are doing this exciting work come from a variety of areas: digital art, media design, architecture, computer science, computer graphics, and others. The breadth of this new area of culture is inspiring - and also makes it hard to follow its growth. This is why we created Culturevis.
Culturevis brings you our selection of the projects which
are already achieved the status of classics in this new area, as well as
resources for doing and thinking about culture
visualizations: software tools, sources of data, critical texts. We also suggest a
number of preliminary genres in order to help map this new field.
Today you are likely to find culture vis projects on the web, in digital art exhibitions,
or in lobbies of buildings - but not yet in academia. At
Software
Studies Initiative we believe that interactive visualization of cultural data
also offers a new paradigm for cultural research. We call this vision
Cultural Analytics. You can read our articles,
check the projects we are working on, and see how we use
Cultural Analytics in the classroom. We welcome your
ideas and suggestions. If you have finished a new culture vis project which you think should
be linked on this site, let us
know.
Thanks for visiting!
Lev Manovich + Software Studies Initaitive Team
P.S. Along with Culturevis you may be interested in the following sites,
which colllect many projects in "artistic" information visualization:
infosthetics.com
visualcomplexity
Viz4All
and also websites for shared visualization:
Manyeyes
data360
Swivel