{"id":61,"date":"2020-10-25T20:14:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azmar.org\/autographic\/?p=61"},"modified":"2024-04-30T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T12:37:07","slug":"what-do-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-data-physicality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autographic.design\/index.php\/2020\/10\/25\/what-do-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-data-physicality\/","title":{"rendered":"What do we talk about when we talk about data physicality?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computer.org\/csdl\/magazine\/cg\/about\/102666\">Best Paper Award IEEE CG&amp;A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computer.org\/csdl\/magazine\/cg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IEEE Computer Graphics &amp; Applications<\/a>\u00a0journal special issue on data physicalization<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2006.04631\">Preprint<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Data physicalizations &#8220;map data to physical form,&#8221; yet many canonical examples are not based on data sets. To address this contradiction, I argue that the practice of physicalization forces us to rethink traditional notions of data. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to examine how physicalizations relate to data. This paper develops a two-dimensional conceptual space for comparing different perspectives on data used in physicalization, drawing from design theory and critical data studies literature. One axis distinguishes between epistemological and ontological perspectives, focusing on the relationship between data and the mind. The second axis distinguishes how data relate to the world, differentiating between representational and relational perspectives. To clarify the aesthetic and conceptual implications of these different perspectives, the paper discusses examples of data physicalization for each quadrant of the continuous space. It further uses the framework to examine the explicit and implicit assumptions about data in physicalization literature. As a theoretical paper, it encourages practitioners to think about how data relate to the manifestations and the phenomena they try to capture. It invites exploration of the relationship between data and the world as a generative source of creative tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"918\" data-src=\"https:\/\/azmar.org\/autographic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-8-1024x918.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/autographic.design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-8-1024x918.png 1024w, https:\/\/autographic.design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-8-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/autographic.design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-8-768x688.png 768w, https:\/\/autographic.design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-8-1536x1377.png 1536w, https:\/\/autographic.design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-8.png 1968w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/918;\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Paper Award IEEE CG&amp;A Published in\u00a0IEEE Computer Graphics &amp; Applications\u00a0journal special issue on data physicalization Preprint Abstract: Data physicalizations &#8220;map data to physical form,&#8221; yet many canonical examples are not based on data sets. To address this contradiction, I argue that the practice of physicalization forces us to rethink traditional notions of data. 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