Here you will find an ongoing exploration of two general domains:

• data visualization or infographics and
• generation and animation of visual shape languages.

The first is aimed at developing a tool set to increase understanding of digital data sets. The second is an extension of the research as set up during my thesis.

Infographics

Currently, I am looking into several datasets:

• my personal music metadata, a relatively small set, combined with my Last.fm data retrieved through their API,
• waste, or global food losses, as based on facts presented by the FAO organisation,
• open data as presented by www.hackdeoverheid.nl

The aim is to cache data in RDF triples using the Amazon SimpleDB online database system, after which data is parsed, cleaned, organized and visualized dynamically using Java libraries such as Processing and Jena.

Generative Art

Generative art based on a Modernist approach has been around since, well, Modernism, and although the movement as such is relatively unknown, it has been present in the cultural conversation unconsciously certainly for decades by now. I’ve been studying everything from autonomous art, music, computational composition etc. since my thesis, which researched abstract visual art based on grammars. Over the years, I have compiled an extensive reference list on all related topics. My aim is to continue this research by developing a box of algorithms that can be used to create audiovisual compositions. I am currently working on an implementation that uses the core Processing library.