Tag: Styrofoam

2005 – Email Erosion: First Data Sculpture?

Although there are older data sculptures (see our entry 1995 – Loren Madsen’s Early Data Sculptures), this installation from artist Ethan Ham may have been the first artifact to be called a data sculpture. In 2005, Andrew Vande Moere, a Design Professor and author of the now discontinued data visualization blog infosthetics, described the installation as: an art installation that automatically creates physical data sculptures, using spam & e-mail as data to trigger the sculpting […]

Added by: Pierre Dragicevic. Category: Passive physical visualization  Tags: data sculpture, emails, spam, styrofoam, water


2006 – RoomQuake: Earthquake Visualization for the Classroom

Styrofoam balls hung from classroom ceiling representing the epicenters (location), magnitudes (diameter and color), and depths (length of the string) of a series of simulated earthquakes in a fifth grade classroom. Source: Tom Moher (2006) Embedded Phenomena: Supporting Science Learning with Classroom-sized Distributed Simulations.

Added by: Pierre Dragicevic, sent by: Tom Moher. Category: Passive physical visualization  Tags: earthquake, education, hand-made, styrofoam, walkable