Thursday, March 21, 2013

Mapping Artists


1.My first artist is the Computational Story Lab
One of their conceptual art pieces deals with mapping happiness
through twitter and the frequency of certain words.
The Results were very interesting and Napa, California
seems to be a happy place to live.

http://animalnewyork.com/2013/the-twitter-generated-happiness-map-of-america/
"Computational Story Lab are expanding their scope in an effort to
 map out the existential condition of the entire country
Unlike art cartographer Eric Fischer who used geotag data of tweets to map 
density of twitter users on the streets, CSL used the content of ten million 
geotagged tweets from 2011 onward to map out happiness on a nationwide 
scale based on the frequency of certain words."
2. Eric Fischer
Fischer uses the data from twitter to form these beautiful maps of New York
I really liked his work because of the organic presence his pieces give out.
You can see in this picture of one of his pieces looks like
veins and I thought that was interesting because it is just a image
of the data density he got off twitter


3.Tjep.
"founder Frank Tjepkema and 
DutchDNA‘s Eric Wolthuis extract genetic profiles,
map the data with 3D imaging, and transform a person’s
individual DNA into an equally unique work of art."
DNA Mapping furniture! I really just like this table because of its shape and I just wish I owned this !



Monday, March 4, 2013

Location Project



In our location, we took pictures of Cafe Rosso and turned it into a floating boat. We did this through photoshop and animated it. We uploaded the animated picture to youtube and added a QR Code. You can find our QR Codes around campus and around our location.
We really wanted our piece to be fun and whimsical from the busy school days at SF State. Often times  from my experience, students don't take a brief moment to see things differently, so this piece helps students see Cafe Rosso in a new form.
-Our video

Download here : http://www.mediafire.com/?2r28a718gxbqwlq