Danny Cho – LookingOutwards 11

For this week’s looking outwards to give attention to female artists in the field of creative coding, I would like to focus on Sharon Daniel. Sharon Daniel is a professor in the Film and Digital Media department and serves as chair for the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her works are focused on empowering and giving voice to those who don’t receive as much attention and are often mistreated, and become the victims of injustice in our society.

a screenshot of “blood sugar”

My favorite work of hers is called, “Blood Sugar”. It is an archive of interviews with numerous conversations with different types of addicts. The conversations include why and how they became addicts. The visualization shows the form of sound wave as well as different key sentences that reacts to the movement of the mouse.

What interests me is that the visualization is not necessarily a crucial part of the story and it could have been explained in many other ways, but because it creates a certain atmosphere, while emphasizing the “voice” of the interviewee, it adds to the experience of listen. Especially how one can rotate the sound wave in the 3D space provides metaphorically different perspectives.

This is the link to her project.