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Chronographics: Icastic Visualizing Time
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Friday, 27 February 2015. Another old project, Visualising time. Elicits people’s visual images of Time. This attempt to gather and segment representations of Time. Is reflected in a recent RCA project by Flora Bowden and Dan Lockton for Suslab with the V&A to elicit drawings of Energy. For that project, see Drawing Energy. And Drawing Energy and Powerchord at the London Design Festival 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Olivia Vane's research blog. Florian Kräutli's YYYY-MM-DD blog. Paris Explana...
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Chronographics: October 2014
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Saturday, 4 October 2014. New PhD student in chronographics. A new PhD student has started this week with me at the Royal College of Art. Working on timewise visualisation and building on the pioneering work of Florian Kräutli. He is Sam Cottrell. Before coming to the RCA he was Application Engineer at InfoAsset, and then Product Manager at Interica, managing software development, initiating new products and championing the needs of the user. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Olivia Vane's research blog. Boyd ...
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Chronographics: Book chapter on metaphors of geography in diagramming time
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Friday, 13 March 2015. Book chapter on metaphors of geography in diagramming time. Pickering and Chatto have recently published Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe. Edited by David Beck. Of Warwick University. They describe the volume:. Contents of the book:. Introduction – David Beck. Part I: Unity and the Investigation of Nature. 8216;Not a Hundred Sorts of Beasts, Not Two Hundred of Birds’: Universal Language and the Early Modern End of the World – James Dougal Fleming. Part II: God’s Two Books.
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Chronographics: Literature and Time
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Sunday, 22 February 2015. From the REACT Knowledge Exchange Hub. An old entry but still interesting). 8216;Timelines offer readers a way to explore historical, biographical and contextual information about an author or book, but at present the timelines used in literary apps offer little more than their paper counterpart. Using data visualization and the affordance of the touch screen, Alex Butterworth of Amblr. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Olivia Vane's research blog. List of the c2,000 names in ...
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Chronographics: December 2014
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Wednesday, 10 December 2014. Talk at the Antiquarian Horological Society. I will be giving a talk ‘ Almost at a Single Glance’ – Visualisation of Historic Time in the Eighteenth Century. As part of the Antiquarian Horological Society’s London Lectures series. On Thursday 22 January 2015. Barbeau de la Bruyere. 1750. Mappemonde Historique. Detail. Collection: Bibliothèque municipale. Dijon (Fonds Ancien). Photo : Stephen Boyd Davis. Collection: Bibliothèque Municipale de Dijon (12990). Part III, Ch. 5.
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Chronographics: Britten's Words
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Tuesday, 19 May 2015. At the start of May, Florian Kräutli. And I went to the Red House. At Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK to see the exhibition Britten’s Words. In which Florian’s digital visualisation appears. The exhibition makes exceptionally good use of audio-guides, providing real musical depth to the objects and explanations. In Florian’s visualisation, song-cycles in Britten’s life of composing are connected to the poets positioned in their own historical timeline. See earlier post. List of the c2,000 na...
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Chronographics: November 2014
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Monday, 3 November 2014. Talking to The National Archives. To The National Archives. In the rain, to give a talk on The Shape of Time. For their in-house Big Ideas series. It's where Sam Cottrell has recently started his AHRC studentship. A very good and responsive audience, with interesting questions too. My thanks to Valerie Johnson, Head of Research, for being such a kind host and to Victoria Lain for looking after me there. Girolamo Andrea Martignoni. 1718. Imago Romani Imperii. Boyd Davis, Stephen a...
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Chronographics: March 2014
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Friday, 28 March 2014. Fully funded studentship in data visualisation (AHRC). The Royal College of Art and The National Archives in London are jointly offering one fully funded PhD studentship (full time for three years) to begin late September 2014. Studentship (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award). Visualising historic time to integrate data across multiple datasets. Deadline for applications: midnight (UK time) 28 April 2014. Interviews likely to be week beginning 26 May. The studentship will cover home...
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Chronographics: May 2015
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Thursday, 28 May 2015. Lüna Talks: Uncertainty Scenarios - Time and Progress, ICA London, Monday 1 June 6 - 8 pm. At the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London on Monday 1 June at 6pm, I will be contributing to a discussion that promises to be fascinating. With Stephen Boyd Davis. RCA), Marjolijn Dijkman. Artist) and Cathy Haynes. Artist and Curator) [ and possibly others*. Update 30 May. Jay Griffiths. Author of Pip Pip: A Sideways Look At Time. Has confirmed her participation. Tuesday, 19 May 2015.
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Chronographics: May 2014
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Friday, 9 May 2014. Vienna conference presentation ESSHC. A useful and enjoyable trip to Vienna for the very big European Social Science History Conference. Our presentation Saturday 26 April 2014. Photos from Twitter by MH Beals. Interesting and useful talks that day were:. Lajos Balint on the causes of Suicide in the Hungarian Kingdom at the Beginning of 20th Century. Robert Schwartz, Thomas Thevenin: Improving the Odds: Railways, Agrarian Change, and Infant Mortality in Victorian Britain. Nynke van de...
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