15^th International Conference on Information Visualisation – iV2011

iV2011 Tutorials/Courses:

1. Art for Visualizers

Francis T. Marchese, Pace University, NY, USA

2. Information Visualization – an introduction

Bob Spence, Imperial College London, UK

A Full-day Course: Tuesday 12 July 2011, Time: 10:30 -16:30

Art for Visualizers

Francis T. Marchese, Pace University, NewYork, USA

http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese

Abstract

The confluence of art and visualization has a long history. Indeed, the Paleolithic artists who painted on the cave walls of southwest France may have been the first visualizers. Or was it vice versa? Either way, throughout the intervening millennia visual artists have become proficient at transforming information into representations that are designed to communicate and provoke. The challenge facing a viewer of art is how to decipher an image’s content and extract its meaning. This holds true for a viewer of visualizations as well.

Thus, the purpose of this tutorial is to introduce the fundamental skills for analyzing visual art that subsequently may be applied to scientific and information visualizations. It will offer an historical survey of the intersections of art and visualization with an emphasis on examples from contemporary artists, and provide an opportunity for participants to practice these skills within a gallery setting. To this end, the tutorial will be composed of two sessions. A morning session will focus on an historical survey, conceptual foundations, and skill acquisition. An afternoon session convening at one of London’s art museums will allow course participants to test their analysis skills on a selection of gallery’s paintings.

Level of Tutorial: Introductory

Biography

Frank Marchese has a Ph.D. in quantum chemistry from the University of Cincinnati and was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow specializing in the statistical mechanics of liquids. He is currently Professor of Computer Science at Pace University where he teaches courses in computer graphics, data visualization, human-computer interaction, and software engineering. His research interests span scientific and information visualization; novel user interfaces for visualization; distributed and collaborative visualization; integration of visualization into lifecycles for scientific research and software engineering; and the development of visualization systems at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

He is founder and Director of Pace’s Center for Advanced Media (CAM) and the Pace Digital Gallery, the latter of which is a collaboration between Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems and Department of Fine Arts. He has published widely in science, technology, and art; and is editor of the conference proceedings entitled Understanding Images published by Springer-Verlag.

Frank has been twice awarded Pace’s School of Computer Science and Information Systems Excellence in Research Award, received the Kenan Award for Teaching Excellence, and been nominated for The Carnegie Foundation Teacher of the Year Award. In December 2008, he was awarded Pace University’s Faculty Award for Distinguished Service. Most recently he has been a visiting scholar at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts where he has extended his scholarship into museum curatorial studies, installation of art in alternative spaces, and the relationship between text and image in medieval art. He is currently exploring the artistic origins of information visualization.

A Full-day Course: Tuesday 12 July 2011, Time: 10:30 -16:30

Information Visualization – an introduction

Bob Spence, Imperial College London, UK

ABSTRACT

This full-day tutorial may appeal both to newcomers to the field of Information Visualization and those whose remit is to teach that subject. The content will largely follow that of the speaker’s recent book Information Visualization: design for interaction published by Prentice-Hall in 2007. Three aspects of Information Visualization will be discussed: Representation, concerned with the manner in which data is encoded, usually graphically; Presentation, which addresses the question as to how the represented data is ‘laid out’ within limits; and Interaction, partly that which is involved in navigation and partly as an essential component of exploration. Much of the material will be illustrated by brief video clips as well as by a number of case studies.

Biography

Bob Spence has been involved with the field of Human-computer Interaction since 1967, when he devised new methods of information visualization to support a novel interactive-graphic interface for engineering designers. This early work eventually led to a commercial (CAD) product, while another system for which he was co-architect – for the human guidance of automated design – exhibited the features now associated with the ‘new’ field of Visual Analytics. He was a coinventor of the Bifocal Display (now referred to as the Fisheye Lens) as well as the Attribute and Influence Explorers that support the highly interactive acquisition of insight into multiparameter systems. For the past decade he has focused his attention on the topic of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation as well as the potential offered by eye-gaze detection for investigative and control purposes.

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