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Stanford University will be hosting the “Art and Technology of Science Visualizations” exhibit at Wallenberg Hall on May 18th.  It will highlight the growing genre of science maps based on large scale datasets.

Places & Spaces highlights the rapidly growing genre of science maps based on large scale data sets. “The art, science and understanding of visualization technologies and their application have enabled new insights about complex issues to be shared with broad communities,” states Media X Executive Director Charles House.  “This new exhibit has turned Wallenberg Hall into a gallery setting that complements the world class visualization work on the Stanford campus in campus labs such as the Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCI) and the Spatial History Project.

It consists of both the physical exhibition and an online counterpart at http://www.scimaps.org .  Every hear 10 new maps are added to the exhibit, resulting in 100 maps by 2014.  This is the fifth year.  See the full press release after the break.

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Science exhibition

This week is the VizaGoGo Exhibition at the Rudder Exhibit Hall at Texas A&M.  This is the 16th annual exhibition, but the first since visualization became a department within the university.  Stop by all this week to see stereo images, animated videos, games, and interactive simulations.

Aside from looking at and appreciating the work of the visual artists spectators will be given an opportunity to participate the games and interactive programs such as an adaptation of ping pong – body pong. “Some games you play with your whole body and some games you play by sitting at a computer and working with an interface ” Hillier said. Huebel said that each year s VizaGoGo has a different theme and this year s is Superheroes vs. Supervillians. They have developed a story line that will be revealed piece by piece over the course of the exhibit.

via Don’t forego VizaGoGo – Features.

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