Micro, Meso, and Macro Data Collection and Analysis, as a Method for Speculative and Artistic Exploration

In this work, an attempt is made to explore the emerging computationally-enhanced private and public environments by analysing the ecological transitions and their implications on practical, aesthetic, and speculative dimensions. The author has decided to methodologically dissect the multiplicity of information that exists on many possible-to-detect scales, that is, micro (10-10 to 10-3), meso (10-3 to 101), and macro (101 to 108), and utilize this extraction as a tool for experimentation and redefinition. With the use of custom-made hardware and software utilities (sensor devices, sentiment analysis algorithms, online APIs, and many more), a vast amount of data is collected and used as a multidimensional layered architecture that constantly shifts and transforms. The extracted and analysed content of the collection becomes the essence of the work that is shaped and refined through digital and physical making – middleware, recursion, mapping – and by utilizing technological objects within the physical space, the creative process is augmented and amplified, exploring not only new practices and novel applications, but rather redefining behaviour, thought-process, and context.

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Stavros Didakis

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Publication date: May 2018

Publication date (Print): May 2018

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[1 ] School of Art, Design, and Architecture, University of Plymouth

Plymouth, PL48AA, United Kingdom

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.24

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Conference name: Politics of the Machines - Art and After

Conference acronym: EVA Copenhagen

Conference number: 7

Conference location: Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Conference date: 15 - 17 May 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Digital arts and culture

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[1] G BiondiV. FranzoniV. Poggioni 2017 A Deep Learning Semantic Approach to Emotion Recognition Using the IBM Watson Bluemix Alchemy Language O. Gervasi Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10406 Springer Cham 718 729

[2] J BollenA. PepeH. Mao 2010 Modelling Public Mood and Emotion: Twitter Sentiment and Socio-Economic Phenomena Proceedings of the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 450 53

[3] B. H. Bratton 2016 The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty MIT Press Cambridge, MA

[4] R CatalanoC. D. Dooley 1977 Economic Predictors of Depressed Mood and Stressful Life Events in a Metropolitan Community Journal of Health and Social Behavior 18 292 307

[5] F ConwayJ. Siegelman 2005 Dark Hero of the Information Age. In Search of Norbert Wiener the Father of Cybernetics Basic Books Cambridge, MA

[6] R. S. Cowan 1983 More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave Basic Books New York

[7] G DeleuzeF. Guattari 1987 A Thousand Plateaus B. Massumi University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis

[8] M DodgeR. Kitchin 2008 Software, Objects and Home Space Environment and Planning A August 1 36

[9] EPA Environmental Protection Agency 2007 Health Effects of Air Pollution http://www.epa.gov/region07/air/quality/health.htm 5 October 2017

[10] S.M. Govorushko 2012 Natural Processes and Human Impacts. Interactions between Humanity and the Environment Springer Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York

[11] C. S. Holling 1973 Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 4 1 23

[12] H Lefebvre 1991 The Production of Space Blackwell Cambridge

[13] H. R. MaturanaF. Varela 1980 Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living Reidel London

[14] W. J. Mitchell 2002 ME++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City MIT Press Cambridge, MA

[15] T. B. MoeslundE. Granum 2001 A Survey of Computer Vision-Based Human Motion Capture Computer Vision and Image Understanding 81 3 231 68

[16] T NasukawaJ. Yi 2003 Sentiment Analysis: Capturing Favorability Using Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture New York: ACM 70 7

[17] Plato 1986 The Dialogues of Plato Bantam Dell New York

[18] J. SchöningC. E. Bonhage 2015 On the Acquisition of Human Emotions in Space and Time F. BiljeckiV. Tourre Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation 49 54

[19] N SchwarzG. L. Clore 1983 Mood, Misattribution, and Judgments of Well-Being: Informative and Directive Functions of Affective States Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 45 513 23

[20] A. A. Sharov 2010 Functional Information: Towards Synthesis of Biosemiotics and Cybernetics Entropy Basel, Switzerland 12 5 1050 1070

[21] G. M. Wilkening 2006 Non-Ionizing Radiations J. R. PfafflinE. N. Ziegler Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering 1 A-L 5th Edition Taylor & Francis Raton, London, New York 779 90

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