Mike Wirth, Artist's Talk, held in the Visual Communication class in Spring 2006.
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Mike Wirth, Artist's Talk, held in the Visual Communication class in Spring 2006.
]]>This class is called Visual Communication in Computer Graphics and Art, and the idea is to show the students a broad range of visual means of communication. Visualization is of course the main one, but I also talk about photography, painting, information graphics, aesthetics, perception, and representation.
Computer science students can do great things, as the showcase from an earlier class clearly demonstrates. But mixing in people with a better sense for visual things can only help, and certainly makes for much more interesting discussions.
In a paper to be published soon, I argue that visualization criticism is simply critical thinking about visualization. That also seems to be the way the students understood it, and they took the suggestions and criticisms to heart and worked on them (most of them, anyway). It certainly helped to have design and architecture students in the class that were much more used to this style of working than the computer science majors, but the latter didn't have any problems adapting to this style of working.
Criticism also helped connect the theory to practice. Some of the remarks my students and I made about some of the designs reflected topics from aesthetics and representation that we had talked about. This provides a n additional, different style of learning to the students, and creates more interconnections between the rather diverse topics of the class.
What is interesting is that some of the arts students actually went a lot further in their data analysis than their computer science colleagues. A few of the architecture students were also intrigued by the fact that you can use spatial metaphors to visualize any data, not just spaces.
A gallery of student work will be published here soon.
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Mike Wirth, Artist's Talk, held in the Visual Communication class in Spring 2006.
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Mike Wirth, Artist's Talk, held in the Visual Communication class in Spring 2006.
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Malena Bergmann, Art History, held in the Visual Communication class in Spring 2006
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Malena Bergmann, Art History, held in the Visual Communication class in Spring 2006
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Malena Bergmann, Artist's Talk, in the Visual Communication class in Spring 2006.
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Malena Bergmann, Artist's Talk, in the Visual Communication class in Spring 2006.
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For Syllabus, Slides, Assignments, etc, look at the Materials Page!
In this class, we will look at the many fields that are relevant to the contents of the images we create in visualization, and investigate the use of visualization for visual communication. Some of the fields that we will look at are:
To make the class even more interdisciplinary, it is my intention to mix computer science students with their colleagues from the arts and architecture. This will hopefully create a challenging and fun environment to come up with some interesting new ideas.
A similar class held last spring in Vienna yielded some very positive feedback from the students, and also some exceptional results.
That depends on who you are, or more specifically, what your major is.
The class will be held again in Spring 2008.
Course number: ITCS 4123/5123
When: Wes 2:00-4:45pm
Where: 130 Woodward Hall (building 56 on this map, ground floor)
Not right now, no. So far, I have used copies of my slides plus additional materials like papers. I am looking into using a book, but since that will only be available mid December for me to review, I am not yet sure if I will want to use that.