The Anti-Sublime Ideal in Data Art Response

What i find interesting about this article is the discussion of dimensions, and how information can be presented in different dimensions- and that designers have to determine which ones to use. Choices made by designers are often criticized by the consuming public because of who and what is represented in these dimensions.

Another thought provoking point to this article is that new media is a way in which we re-map old media. It renovates the way analog objects operate, and open new doors for artists and designers to expand their abilities. A simple example would be creating or manipulating a static image in Photoshop, and importing it into AfterEffects to combine it with time and other dimensions.

Paper Prototype for Spurlock Museum Kiosk

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Team Questions for Kiosk Project

a. What is your team's subject matter - what is in the exhibition you're creating?

What is your team's subject matter - what is in the exhibition you're creating?
our team's subject matter for our exhibition includes jewelry and vanity items throughout African, European, Chinese, the Americas, Papa New Guinea, and (1 more) cultures. These items range from anything like bracelets to eye glass cases.

b. What are your design/communication goals? (what is the perspective offered by your exhibition on the objects being represented? For example, are you exhibiting the work of a single maker, counter to anthropological musuem norms that represent makers as anonymous members of an exotic culture?)

Our design goal is to show objects from the past over a wide range of cultures with a focus on women's items. Many museums are sectioned off by culture and it is easy to see the dramatic differences when presented with a variety of art and items from each one, but by focusing on objects used by women, it is easier to see some similarities in the cultures by the objects that women used.

c. What is the organizational structure you will use? (geography, date, gender, function, etc?)

The organizational structure we will be using is mainly gender, specifically concentrating on female objects, and their functions.


d. What will your kiosk's architecture be? (see this site for examples) And how does it serve your stated goals?

Our kiosk's architecture will involve a touch-screen panel that allows for scrolling through the object list by the culture it's from. Another idea is that we can sort things by items (ex. perfume bottles), and have the items in that category come up as a list with information.