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Cognitive Capitalism - Public Seminar

There are broadly three ways of thinking historically about capitalism. One draws on Marx’s value theory and pretty much treats...Read More

Drones in Visual Culture / Anna Jackman Converses with Elisa Serafinelli and Lauren Alex O’Hagan about Their Work - ASAP/Review

In recent years, the expansion of camera-laden drones has enabled and ushered in the production and consumption of new visual perspectives. Drone visuals are rapidly becoming part of our sociocultural imaginaries, at once generating distinct images that differ from traditional visual conventions and producing unexpected perspectives of the world that reveal hidden aspects of our surroundings.

value noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com

Definition of value noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Information is Beautiful

Distilling the world's data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations

ELI5 : What exactly is Aesthetic Visual Analysis?

I am a designer and I recently read about Netflix using an image discovery tool called AVA to generate frames from the content on their platform…

Cognitive Debt and ChatGPT

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

The community-first software era

Some ideas about how to encode our values into the tools we use

Weird Studies

Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."

Twilight of the Spielberg Image

Steven Spielberg's career wrestles with the power and meaning of image-making, and his sci-fi "Disclosure Day" makes this its very subject.

On power, aesthetics, materiality and change in data visualization

Notes from the Information+ Conference at MIT/Northeastern University, Boston.

People Who Can't Visualize Anything Are Challenging a 300-Year-Old Theory of Thought

Mental imagery might not be as central to complex human thought as we believed, philosophers say.

On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge. Grey Room 2005; (18): 26–51. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/1526381043320741

A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data

Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data visualization research in a checklist that can help researchers to improve their data visualization, by focusing on clarity, accessibility and design best practices.