Cultural Analytics – Mark Rothko Paintings – on the 287-Megapixel HIPerSpace Wall at Calit2
Presentation by Jeremy Douglass, Calit2
Development of Cultural Analytics software supported by:
UC San Diego Chancellor’s Office
UCSD Division, California Instititute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA)
Developers:
Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com)
Graphics, Visualization and Virtual Reality Laboratory (vis.ucsd.edu)
Duration : 0:5:1
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Ok, seeing …
Ok, seeing everything at the same time is really tempting. So what do you see now?
Did you ever see an original of Rothko?
Rothko is the wrong content for this project. If he could see this, he would laugh at you and throw some funny bar-chart-images at you.
I would prefer to see something more non-artistically, i.e. my mail traffic from the last ten years, or whatever else, but not art.
*I wonder if they could apply this for music as well* what do you expect?
cool.
cool.
What a cool idea! I …
What a cool idea! I actually found the wall and software to be more interesting than the paintings themselves. I didn’t know anything like this existed. I wonder if they could apply this for music as well? Perhaps mapping the tonality, texture and complexity of sound on this wall?