When Will We Be Able To Data Visualize Everything?
In a post-viral marketing world, the curiously designed poster non-chalantly pasted in a “cool” urban area is always subject to scrutiny. One usually goes through a litany of questions when approaching these posters: Is this a new teaser for a science fiction film or will it get me a new free sample of something I’m not quite sure I need?
The above poster is, in fact, part of the University of Technology, Sydney’s Visualizing Research, and it will be interesting to see the types of data they are able to gather from such an open-ended gesture of inviting people to “complete” a poster, for such an invitations highlights the most important question in participatory projects: what is the exchange value between user and the requester? To that end, what does the enactor (perhaps the brand) gain access to? How is the data useful?
Check out the progress of the project here.
[via: Darling Hurst Nights]
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Lisa Baldini is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. As a student of Graham Harwood, Luciana Parisi, and Matthew Fuller, Lisa's interest in technology lies in how culture is changed from the bottom up through history, materiality, databases, user experience, and affective computing. A student of social media marketing, she sees how people try to engage consumers through technology and how much failure is at hand by misunderstanding the medium. A teacher at heart, she writes and curates in an effort to link the knowledge derived between the academic, art, and business worlds.
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