Paul Greenway – Looking Outwards – 09

The Looking Outwards post I decided to look into further was Steven Fei’s week 7 post. The project this post covers is called Architecture of Radio and is by Richard Vijgen and his studio. The design studio, based in the Netherlands, focusses on contemporary information culture and how such data can be visualized through digital art as well as physical installations. This specific project visualizes the world of radio waves, collecting live signals from a variety of different sources and compiling them into one cohesive “infosphere” experience. The infosphere is then viewed by the user through a real time phone application.

In his post, Steven was specifically interested in the first person representation of the radio wave visualizations that the app provides and how it could allow the user to view the infrastructure of such signals in a unique and immersive way rather than the typical top down system plans. I too found this aspect of the project interesting and in addition thought it managed to very successfully visualize a system critical to our everyday lives that would normally be invisible to us.