The Anti-Sublime Ideal in Data Art - Lev Manovich在数据的艺术-列弗Manovich反崇高理想.docVIP

Lev Manovich The Anti-Sublime Ideal in Data Art Visualization and Mapping Along with a Graphical User Interface, a database, navigable space, and simulation, dynamic data visualization is one of the genuinely new cultural forms enabled by computing. Of course the fans of Edward Tufte will recall that it is possible can find examples of graphical representation of quantitative data already in the eighteenth century, but the use of computer medium turns such representations from the exception into the norm. It also makes possible a variety of new visualization techniques and uses for visualization. With computers we can visualize much larger data sets; to create visualizations which are dynamic (i.e. animated and interactive); to feed in real-time data; to base graphical representations of data on its mathematical analysis using variety of methods from classical statistics to data mining; to map one type of representation into another (images into sounds, sounds into 3D spaces, etc.) Since Descartes introduced the system for quantifying space in the seventeenth century, graphical representation of functions has been the cornerstone of modern mathematics (if you need to remember how it works and you have a Mac, start Graphing Calculator and run the demo.) In the last few decades, the use of computers for visualization enabled development of a number of new scientific paradigms such as chaos and complexity theories, and artificial life. It also forms the basis of a new field of scientific visualization. Modern medicine relies on visualization of body and its functioning; modern biology similarly is dependent on visualization of DNA and proteins. But while contemporary pure and applied sciences, from mathematics and physics to biology and medicine heavily relies on data visualization, in the cultural sphere visualization until recently has been used on a much more limited scale, being confined to 2D graphs and charts in the financial section of a newspaper, or on occasi