Shariq M. Shah – Looking Outwards 12

The two practices I drew inspiration from for the final project included innovative and dynamic information visualizations from Nand.io studio and Stefanie Posavec. The work of Nand.io studio seeks to capture the experience of driving through data, motion, and light. The forces at work within the movement of the Infiniti Q10 are translated abstractly into the diagrammatic explorations in dynamic data. Speed, heart rate, motion, and fluid dynamic shapes are consolidated into cohesive data sets then used to show the data.

Stefanie Posavec’s project, Phantom Terrains, explores the physicality and the auditory presence of wireless networks through experimentally augmenting wireless networks within soundscapes. Network identifiers, data rates, and encryption modes are moved into sonic parameters, then associated with auditory representations.