Cultural Viz: An Aesthetic Approach to Cultural Analytics

Reyes-García, Everardo; Манович, Лев

doi:10.1162/leon_a_01927

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“…Visual analytics is often more related to scientific data rather than the visual resources/ephemera that this study deals with. In contrast, Everardo Reyes and Lev Manovich's cultural analytics approach, more similar to Grouper's approach, focuses on visual cultural data and states that 'Cultural analytics involves designing exploratory methods and visualisation models appropriate for different kinds of visual cultural data; assembling cultural data sets; applying the methods to these data sets; and describing and interpreting the results' 11 . This definition emphasises the importance of both the visual dimension and the exploratory nature of the methodology.…”

Section: Significance Of Grouper: Visualisation As Research Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Computational Interface Design to Reenact the Transitory Moments of the Izmir International Fair

Savasta,

Kocabıyık Savasta,

Gönlügür

2023

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Grouper is a computational interface design, i.e. a web-based platform supporting researchers working with (visual) digital collections. The significance of this platform is about the positioning of researchers and offering them the possibility to create, manage and visualise a collection within their research process. Digital collections are central to the work with an early visualisation facility that allows for iterations in a way where visualisation becomes researching rather than a showcase at the end of research. Focusing on the Izmir International (Trade) Fair and ephemera collections that define an important period in Izmir's history, this study and Grouper ask: ‘How can digital tools help to trace, piece together and make sense of the design heritage of the Izmir International Fair, which includes a wide range of design practices and objects spread across nine decades?’ Working with the ephemera of the Izmir International Fair propels new conceptual and practical additions to Grouper, emphasizing the concepts of ‘assemblage (collection of collections)’ and ‘collaboration’. Thanks to the Grouper computational interface, the object-Fair can be observed through a new lens offered by the multiplicity of visual ephemera included in the assemblage and collaboration as a result of collection(s) from multiple sources and people. This lens of Grouper allows the creation of a content and narrative that was not previously available and enables to reenact the transitory moments of Izmir International Fair. Throughout this work, notions of transience and permanence accompany us in piecing ephemera together, in digitising collections, in Grouper's loose, flexible, modular structured research process, and in the persistence of transient objects and memories in new narratives.

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Section: Significance Of Grouper: Visualisation As Research Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Computational Interface Design to Reenact the Transitory Moments of the Izmir International Fair

Savasta,

Kocabıyık Savasta,

Gönlügür

2023

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“…On the one hand, methods related to digital methods for social research (Highfield & Leaver, 2016) focus on what networked-images do in the assemblages of people, devices, and platforms.2 Following images and para-pictorial items (i.e. tags, comments, links)3 they seek to trace dynamics of production and consumption; of expression and signification of emerging visual cultures in public issues.4 To this extent, while trying to inflect research methodologies towards more participative ones (Niederer & Colombo, 2019), design disciplines contribute first and foremost by constantly adapting and inventing new data-and media-5 visual models (Reyes & Manovich, 2020) to recompose and fix6 the traces of social processes and events7 that images bear.…”

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Desarrollo de imágenes en línea: de las huellas visuales a las voces públicas

Ricci

Calibro²,

Evennou

et al. 2021

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Las imágenes en línea podrían ser consideradas como rastros de la dinámica de los problemas sociales. Asimismo, estas imágenes se inscriben en vastas infraestructuras algorítmicas. Con la intención de dar cuenta de ―y experimentar con― alguna de estas dos especificidades, o ambas, se han elaborado registros de investigación específicos. El propósito de la presente contribución es presentar un posible cruce de los registros existentes y extender el papel que se asigna a las visualizaciones de grandes corpus de imágenes más allá de los propósitos puramente analíticos o críticos. Para ello se describe el proyecto “DEPT.”. Durante dicho proyecto, una serie de artefactos visuales (visualizaciones de datos y medios, catálogos, tableaux y partituras) fueron concebidos con el fin de acercar progresivamente las imágenes en línea a entornos públicos y participativos para indagar en cuestiones situadas. El artículo detalla las necesidades, los marcos teóricos y las opciones metodológicas, junto con los artefactos visuales concebidos en el proyecto, para desarrollar imágenes en línea como expresiones compartidas y colectivas de los temas que se investigan.

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Portrait Map Art Generation By Asymmetric Image-to-Image Translation

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The authors propose a deep neural network–based algorithm to automatically generate portrait map art (PMA), a modern art form created by British portrait artist Ed Fairburn. The authors formulate the generation of PMA as an adaptive dual-to-single image translation problem. The authors’ proposed model analyzes the appearance of one portrait and one map image using two encoder networks and utilizes their hidden encodings as representations of the portrait and map image to generate new PMA using a decoder network. An adaptive style harmonization module is proposed to fuse the two hidden encodings. Optimized by cycle-consistency constraint, the model can produce new PMA images without baselines.

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Cultural Viz: An Aesthetic Approach to Cultural Analytics

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

A Computational Interface Design to Reenact the Transitory Moments of the Izmir International Fair

A Computational Interface Design to Reenact the Transitory Moments of the Izmir International Fair

Desarrollo de imágenes en línea: de las huellas visuales a las voces públicas

Portrait Map Art Generation By Asymmetric Image-to-Image Translation

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