Lev Manovich listed a few more examples of media visualizations in his article, to conclude a point : “a move from traditional visualization that relies on extreme compression of the information to “visualization without reduction,” which I defined as visualization that shows a much richer set of data objects’ properties and/or all media objects directly”. Now is the era of big data, it has also enriched the art world.
The artist Nathalie Miebach takes meteorological data from the storm and converts it into an exquisite visual sculpture made of wicker and colorful beads. These sculptures are accurately determined according to the weather temperature, wind speed and water flow patterns, and then become the score for the string quartet. She uses art and music to make the data both tactile and audible. She usually uses rope, wood, paper, fibers and weather data to weave colorful and complex sculptures. The artist’s two recent series explore the impact of storm water on our lives and marine ecosystems, where variables such as wind and temperature (and the coordination of the composition) are usually informed by the rainbow of colors used to transform the data into three dimensions Structure.
It was Miebach's interest in science that made her a sculptor twenty years ago. She said: "Sculpture is the method I use to answer specific questions about science. This work is very convincing and aims to provide answers to scientific questions." Her work focuses on weather data. Closely related to climate change and devastating storms, it is full of people's strong emotional connotations. As time passed, her works began to contain these metaphors and meanings. The Changing Waters series uses data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Maine Gulf Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS) buoys and coastal weather stations to show the relationship between weather patterns and changes in marine life. Similarly, the artist uses weather data from recent storms such as Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Maria, and Hurricane Katrina to promote her "Flood" series, which focuses on the narrative of science and human experience. Cut and weave elements are connected to each other to form a geometry Shapes and patterns are just like our understanding of the storm itself, so are the layers and volatility.
Data maps and other forms of data visualization (the latest content of our mainstream news literacy) use color contrast to help us understand a lot of information, allowing us to understand the situation from thousands of individual data points. Mapping is Mibach's tool. She manipulates the visual aspects to help us understand these visual effects. The online interaction on the New York Times website is a two-dimensional projection; she transforms it into a three-dimensional object, which is beyond the scope of our understanding and cannot ask us how to understand it. She is a basket weaver, and like a basket, the map is full of longitude and latitude. Data not only brings convenience to human life, artists use their creativity and imagination to turn science into art.
Reference:
Manovich, L. (2016) Artistic Visualization (Chapter 19, pp. 426-444). A Companion to Digital Art. ed Christiane Paul. John Wiley & Sons.
Openshaw, F. & Berdan, I. ( 2020) NATHALIE MIEBACH WEAVES THE WEATHER. Photo Reserved from: https://a-d-o.com/journal/nathalie-miebach-interview
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