Workshop by Sune Petersen
Our daily lives are increasingly filled with steadily flowing information. Through an appropriate visualization and presentation it is possible to place focus on relations that otherwise can be difficult to discover and grasp.
The workshop participant will be introduced to various examples of data visualizations that place focus on specific issues. The student will also get an introduction to and work with that can retrieve and visualize data.
The course will be held as an intensive workshop over 4 days where the student will work with online data sources like pachube, twitter and Facebook. The workshop participant will through the workshop make simple visualizations using the graphical programming environment vvvv.
The workshop participant will make projects that will be exhibited at the Apparat LAB.
Expected skills achieved:
- Basic knowledge about online data sources and how to use access them
- Basic programming skills in vvvv
- Basic skills in using machine readable data formats
- Basic skills in data visualisation
About the teacher
Sune is an engineer specialized in submersive interactive performance, and have been participating in various projects involving perfomances and installations using modular real time visual software.
Currently Sune teaches at Art and Technology at Aalborg University.
Example of Sune Petersens visuals
Info:
Personal: http://galakse.dk/
