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November 2002; New York Public Library
I have been invited to install TextArc in one of New York's most
beautiful reading rooms: the Rose Reading Room in the main branch
at 42nd Street. I have also been invited to lecture at its opening.
The one I'm installing will be on a 50" touch screen plasma panel,
tuned to support conversations between people rather than the
solo text exploration this site was built for.
The project is partially supported by a grant from New York State
Council for the Arts, which I received as an individual artist with
support from ASCI. (Thanks Cynthia!)
October 28-29, 2002; IEEE InfoVis 02
I've had two posters accepted at this well respected
international conference on information visualization.
One on TextArc itself,
and another on my "Illuminated Diagrams"
approach of using print for its incredible information
density, and using a projector as a "smart spotlight" to direct peoples'
attention and add interaction.
September 16; Whitney Museum of American Art
Curator Christiane Paul saw TextArc when I spoke about it
at Database Cultures and commissioned me to participate in CODeDOC, an exhibition
on their on-line ARTPORT
gallery. The project was to write code that "moves three points in space,"
but the focus was on the process: the source code itself would be visible
to viewers, and artists were invited to comment on one another's work.
I chose to directly address Chriatiane's curatorial
intent, so this isn't TextArc, but it shares an approach and
visual/interactive vocabulary. My code read itself in as source
material, and "comments" on itself; I move three points in "code space:"
- The Insertion Point
(how I wrote the code--character by character)
- The Fixation Point
(how someone might read it--word by word)
- The Execution Point
(how the computer executes it--line by line)
Then I modified the code to "comment" on the work of two
other artists, Martin Wattenberg and Scott Snibbe. Fun stuff.
It opened on September 16, 2002, and was the subject of
an article by
Matthew Mirapaul in the New York Times that same day. The
article called the "remixes" by Martin's and me the "the site's most remarkable works."
September 12-15, 2002; Banff Centre for the Arts
Another discussion at a summit meeting called "Quintessence: The Clumpy Matter of Art,
Science and Math Visualization." Invited by Sara Diamond,
Director of the Banff New Media Institute.
July 2002; SIGGRAPH 02 Working Artist
Thanks for the overly generous support from the
SIGGRAPH Art Show
(where I was a "working artist"—actually printing
and tweaking the work based on attendee feedback),
Roland (who
loaned a gorgeous 8 ink 55" printer and donated supplies), and
SMART Technologies (who loaned 2 50" plasma display touch screens).
It was an excellent week. I got great feedback from hundreds of attendees, and
the space was beautiful. Gene Cooper of Four Chambers
Studios documented it in these gorgeous cylindrical photos:
Get QuickTime VR
here if you don't have it. I was surprised at how much difference the interactively moving
view angle makes. Try it!
May 23, 2002; Thundergulch Dialogues: Database Cultures
Wayne Ashley invited me to talk about TectArc and other information
visualization work in the context of databases. Here's
the original e-mail invitation.
August, 2001; Banff Centre for the Arts
First informal showing at the Unforgiving Memory summit, invited by Sara Diamond,
Director of the Banff New Media Institute.
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