Museum of Arts and Design Visualization
Collection Visualization
Objective / Hypothesis
Museums are inherently created to highlight the work of a group of artists whose contribution to the advancement of the media in which they work resulted in not only a piece of reknown but has pushed the boundries of thought and reason. Simply put their artistic merit is "higher" than that of the majority of their peers. But is this the way the general population views these same works, and would the general population namely rank these artists in the same manner as the institution that houses their works? "A MAD Visualization" is an experiment to determine just that - a ranking of works - to better understand how the general public views the art presented to them.
Works for ranking can be chosen by two categories:
- date
- materials
Once a category has been chosen, a list of images is put before the viewer to rank from "best" to "worst." Upon submission of those rankings an amalgamation of ranked objects, created according to importance as assigned by user (see potential displays) is generated. This display can then be printed out as a work in itself.
The different entry points as well as the various rankings will create different unique displays and thus display the different methods through which we view the spectrum of "good" to "bad" art.
The two visualizations proposed to the right are works in progress. The first hopes to create a more abstract representation of objects and one that aesthetically stands separate from the objects themselves. The second hopes to combine all images into a "prototypical object," whether by a fill or outline method of an object from the collection.
This project is in collaboration with Ekene Ijeoma.
