Author: Erin Frey
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Assignment 2: Myth, Reason, Faith
My corpus, a compilation of class notes from the Comparative Humanities core course “Myth, Reason, Faith,” was inspired by the creative process of essay topic generation. My goal is to visualize theme patterns across texts in order to make potential essay topics more easily noticeable. I organized notes into separate documents for each text. For…
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DuBois Installation
DuBois is an artist, and therefore his work is aesthetically motivated; however, his work also has an intended audience, such as the installation of word clouds composed from presidential State of the Union addresses created for the 2012 Democratic National Convention. He uses computer algorithms to make his art statistically significant and precise, and…
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Successful Maps – Interactive and Static
The ongoing project Seattle Band Map is an interactive visualization of the northwest’s music scene, allowing viewers to explore the relationships between artists and their collaborations, venues, and personal relationships. Seeing bands through their connections rather than their body of work offers viewers a different perspective in which the differences between the Seattle-popular Soul, Funk,…