Tuesday, November 4, 2003

visualizations of blogspace As promised, I've posted a few visualizations of blogspace. Here's one more that didn't fit in that presentation. Click for big image (703K). if you're interested in this, you'll also be interested in my Macroscope Manifesto comments? [] 11:15:45 PM     Weblog visualizations and Conspiracy Art Saturday's Weekend Edition on National Public Radio had a facinating piece on "The 'Conspiracy' Art of Mark Lombardi".  Here's the teaser.               Detail from first rough draft of Mark Lombardi's BNL, Reagan, Bush, & Thatcher and the Arming of Iraq, ca. 1983-91 (1995) Credit: Photo by John Berens View Full Imag Nov. 1, 2003 -- A few weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, an FBI agent called the Whitney Museum of American Art and asked to see a drawing on exhibit there. The piece was by Mark Lombardi, an artist who had committed suicide the year before. Using just a pencil and a huge sheet of paper, Lombardi had created an intricate pattern of curves and arcs to illustrate the links between global finance and international terrorism. In other drawings, Lombardi explored subjects ranging from the collapse of the Vatican bank to the Iran-Contra scandal. The results are not only detailed slices of history, but also works of art -- some looking like constellations of stars on a dark night, others swirling clouds of abstract lines and points. Photo Gallery: Mark Lombardi's 'Conspiracy' Art This goaded me into showing some of my own visualizations of webloggery, concocted this summer for my 'job talk' at RIT, (after which the demands of the job have pre-empted my documenting this research.  Welcome to my world; I may submit this and some related stuff to the Web Based Communities 2004 conference in Lisbon deadline Nov 10 or, more likely to The Fifth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association to be held right here at RIT in June, deadline December 1.) . However, some of the images that came from that study are, in my humble opinion quite beautiful in their own right.   So please stand by for my own virtual gallery... comments? [] 10:51:21 PM

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