From Data to Digital Art: Animating Air Traffic, Texting and Thom Yorke March 6, 2010

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/25/Digital_Life_Design_2010_Maps

Digital media artist Aaron Koblin shows off his animated visualizations of flight traffic mapping, text message usage and other illustrated projects, including an animated version of Thom Yorke's face created for an open source Radiohead video.

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This session on maps features Julieta Aranda (E-flux), Rosa Barba (Artist), Peter Hirshberg (The Conversation Group), Alexander Kluge (Director), Aaron Koblin (Google Creative Lab), Philippe Parreno (Artist), Josef Penninger (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Eric Rodenbeck (Stamen), Anri Sala (Artist) Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard Lab for Astrophysics) and Qiu Zhijie (China Academy of Art). Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery) moderates.

Aaron Koblin is an artist specializing in data visualization. His work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to depict cultural trends and emergent patterns. Koblin's work has been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and TED. He received the National Science foundation's first place award for science visualization and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Currently, Koblin is Technology Lead of Google's Creative Lab where he helped to launch Chrome Experiments, a website showcasing JavaScript work by designers from around the world.