The lecture and readings in this week
conceptualise the idea of visualisation. Simply put, this visualisation is the
process where an ‘invisible’ idea is made ‘visible’ by creating graphic
representations of the subject (Kosara 2008). Bar graphs or pie charts for
example visually conceptualise data that could be difficult to interpret like
presenting the number of people that wear hoodies in class (just to give an odd
example) (Kosara 2008).
The readings included the term vjing as
part of the process of visualisation. Vjing is an audio visual performance art,
usually performed in clubs and concerts. The artists use pre-existing playlists
of audio and video tracks to combine them into their own pieces (Wikipedia 2014).
Video synthesisers take the audio and use it to create rudimentary visuals and
patterns that flowed and synchronises with the music. Tools would later on
allow people to manipulate videos and music simultaneously. What’s interesting
is that these are usually performed live. What does this form of visualisation
make visible though? Video manipulation is said to have many techniques and
aesthetic qualities that help in the understanding of different forms of
learning. Video conceptualises the “disorder and fragmentation of music” that
goes on in these live performances. Interactivity can also play a part in
allowing audiences to grasp more complex concepts (Gates 2009). Other forms of
vjing help visualise complex ideas, from revealing “spatial, social and
technological architectures” while also being able to express psychological
spaces (Gates 2009). Indeed, the world of live video mixing is enabling us to
visualise and therefore understand complex concepts much better.
While the degrees of visualisation that are
brought about by VJ are vast, are there concepts that just cannot be
visualised? Are there types of data that the world of vjing cannot comprehend?
Can all invisible constructs be visible?
Even though other forms of visualisation
are limited, graphs are subjected to taking into account a few variables to
visualise data, (a bar graph is limited by the x and y axis) (Kosara 2008).
However, given the information about the ability of VJ as a performance art
that can explain complex issues such as psychological matters. It appears that
new publishing technologies and processes are shining a light and revealing those
invisible and abstract theories. The reading brought about another idea which
could possibly suggest why VJs able to conceptualise such difficult matters.
Contemporary visualisation are no longer limiting themselves to the audience’s
sight, but also through sound, VJs can make a synesthetic experience which
could offer profound insight to their audiences (Gates 2009).
(This video helped me visualise the idea of vjing)
References
Gates, C.
(2009). Vague
Terrain 09: Rise of the VJ | Vague Terrain. [online] Vagueterrain.net.
Available at: http://vagueterrain.net/journal09 [Accessed 15 Sep. 2014].
Kosara, R.
(2008). What
is Visualization? A Definition. [online] eagereyes. Available at:
http://eagereyes.org/criticism/definition-of-visualization [Accessed 15 Sep.
2014].
Wikipedia, (2014). VJing.
[online] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VJing#cite_note-1 [Accessed
15 Sep. 2014].
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