Data Visualization and Eco-Media Content: Media Art Produced at Digital Narratives Workshops

Symposium:

• ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Data Visualisation and Media Content

• Data Visualization and Eco-Media Content: Media Art Produced at Digital Narratives Workshops

• Karla Schuch Brunet
• Juan Freire

Venue(s):

• Sabanci Center, Istanbul, Turkey

• This paper presents an analysis of the material produced during the “Digital Narratives for community participation on coastal ecosystem management” workshops held in Garapuá, Brazil and Aguiño, Spain (http://?narrativas.?ecoarte.?info/?). It is a reflection on the themes and contents identified and collected by the teenagers. Alongside our analysis tries to facilitate the exploration of the materials to users and to identify topics and problems relevant to the participants, their communities and territories.

  Here, art and ecology get together to produce a visual and conceptual narrative of these peoples’ lives, culture, economy, religion, territories, landscape and so on. The workshops were facilitated by a group of artists and scientists that worked together to get a picture of these two places and see their connections, similarities and discrepancies.

  Art, being here a subtle form of communication and protest, uses data visualization to empower community members allowing them to visualize, and realize, facts there were sometimes misplaced, or hidden, or forgotten. The cataloguing and careful handling of the media produced during the workshops has a key role in this visualization. At the same time, we explore the software and graphical possibilities of this visualizing process. Concluding, in this paper we propose an analysis, conceptual and aesthetical, of the content and its visualization.

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