international design conference
communicating
complexity
Alghero - 25, 26 October 2013
informative-animation
interactive data visualization
info-graphics
Registration
Conference Opening
Keynote Speech: Santiago Ortiz
Lunch break
Paper sessions:
Special Guest Lecture:
Dave Daniels
Conference Dinner
Keynote Speech: Paul Wells
Paper sessions:
Lunch break
Keynote Speech: Michael Stoll
Paper sessions:
aperitivo di arrivederci
farewell cocktail
Paul Wells
Animation Academy - University of Loughborough
Animation has highly specific techniques in communicating complexity.
Looking specifically at the case of animated industrial films, this discussion will address how information and instruction is constructed using the particular vocabulary available in animation. As well as referring to historical examples by Len Lye, Halas & Batchelor, UPA and George Dunning, engaging with the methods by which ideas, aesthetics and techniques are brought together to illustrate and elaborate educational and training concepts, I will also draw upon my own experience in writing for ‘industrial animation’, addressing some of the approaches used in the forthcoming film, The Oil Kid.
It is hoped that the talk will refine some thoughts about theories of practice and practices of theory, and how these come together most effectively in animated film.
Santiago Ortíz
moebio.com
The interest in networks and complex systems visualization continues to grow, as new uses and tools emerge.
In this young field, however, there are many common problems and unsolved challenges, such as the fact that network visualizations tend to be good at displaying overall and abstract patterns, or helping identifying very local facts, but are poor building structured narratives. There exist two main visualization strategies: the global one, that often reproduces a shape known as hairball, in which relations are unreadable; and the local one, that gives rich information about specific relations yet loosing the context. Complex Systems are often interesting because of the relations and communication flows between global and the locality.
I propose a series of advanced interactive techniques that connect the local view and the global view, and that build narratives out of subsets of nodes: partial linearities out of the non-linearity. My techniques, based on graph theory, topology and geometrical algorithms, include the use of interactive back and forth transitions between local and global views, simulations and stimulations that help to understand the spread of influences and information in a system, and the use of the “reenactment mode” in which dynamical and temporal behaviors are reproduced in a way new stories are created. By using these techniques the interactor has a complete experience of exploration and obtains insight from local, global and intermediate scales.
In my presentation I'll be featuring several examples of interactive projects that visualize networks and complex systems such as genetic networks, conversations, books, system maps and even a television series.
Michael Stoll
Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
Conveying complex facts through information graphics has become a huge trend over the last years. Todays range include datagraphics, explorations of all kind of objects and cartographic displays.
It is time to take a closer look on how infographics work: intentions behind, the triggers and selectors, The visual display and specific visual methods. not to forget about the effects of infographics on us.
Dave Daniels
Designer and Animator
informative-animation
interactive data visualization
info-graphics