The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has a new exhibit titled Decode: Digital Design Sensations. This exhibit is essentially a collection of video art experiments. One of the works in the exhibit uses input streams from visitors to paint colors on a wall through their movements. Another work takes real time data of light, noise, sound, humidity and temperature data and map it onto a globe. Yet another work takes messages from Twitter, either by user name or topic, and then visualizes the data. In this work, popular posts from Twitter spin off horizontally and start a new stream, whereas unpopular posts just link to the next topic. From the Wired article:
The cryptic works on display at London’s Decode: Digital Design Sensations exhibition manipulate raw data as a kind of virtual pigment, finding form and fun amid the sensory overload that threatens to overwhelm the 21st-century hive mind.
via Wired : Decode Exhibition Points Way to Data-Driven Art
