Making Visible the Invisible at the Seattle Public Library

George Le Grady sent a link to his excellent project, Making Visible the Invisible at the Seattle Public Library, in which aggregated data about circulation in the library is revealed in real-time to patrons. It’s definitely worth taking a look. If the dominant mode of art in postmodernism is critical appropriation, I’m increasingly thinking that Network Culture is dominated by the aggregator. Remix isn’t the right term for this, that’s a leftover from postmodernism. What’s so new about remix compared to, say, hip-hop? Data aggregation, on the other hand, was largely unseen in the postmodern era but is flourishing today in culture.

See more at his fascinating web site.

visualization of data


George Le Grady sent a link to his excellent project, Making Visible the Invisible at the Seattle Public Library, in which aggregated data about circulation in the library is revealed in real-time to patrons. It’s definitely worth taking a look. If the dominant mode of art in postmodernism is critical appropriation, I’m increasingly thinking that Network Culture is dominated by the aggregator. Remix isn’t the right term for this, that’s a leftover from postmodernism. What’s so new about remix compared to, say, hip-hop? Data aggregation, on the other hand, was largely unseen in the postmodern era but is flourishing today in culture.

See more at his fascinating web site.

visualization of data