Processing Artists : Aaron Kobin

After going to OFFF and seeing data visualizations I was inspired staright away. But not knowing how they were created I automatically thought that they were created with a special effects program so I tried to create some data art with after effects. But when I started this project and found out that they were created using processing it made me want to learn as much as I can about processing as possible. What makes me like Aaron Kobin so much is that he can create such interesting pieces of art with just data. I am now going to look at his pieces of art and how they were created.

Flight Patterns – After coming up with the idea of creating this piece Kobin Worked with RLM and later Wired Magazine to retrieve data with high accuracy that showed the paths of each airplane over North America which was the able to be animated using processing. With this piece Kobin has received amazingly broad exposure, this includes National Science Foundation's First Place award for Scientific Visualization, screened at the Coachella Music Festival, and appeared in numerous magazines and television programs. The piece has also earned a place in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

New York Talk Exchange- With this piece Kobin asked asked AT&T to provide data on the way that New York City communicates with the rest of the world. Once the data was collected a number of visualizations was created to show the international city relationships to New York.