Joshua Callaghan - Global Tobacco Consumption

Data Sculptures - Joshua Callaghan

Chris Jordan - Packing Peanuts

Visualizing Consumption - Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan at TED

Hans Rosling at TED
Hans Rosling at the State Department

Ben Fry - Medical Data for GE
http://www.ge.com/visualization/health_visualizer/
http://www.ge.com/visualization/your_health_visualizer/

Music Visualization

They Rule - tool that let's us visualize the interconnectedness of board members of major corporations and institutions

Digg Visualizer - real-time visual browser for Digg's news service

Akamai Internet Traffic
http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html
http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz2.html

NY Times Immigration Explorer

Presidential election results maps
2008 Presidential Election
2004 Presidential Election

Baby Name Tool - compare trends in baby naming

Harvesting human emotions - blog visualizer

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.
- Sol LeWitt

It's week 2 in Software Design and Society and we're reading about software and drawing by Casey Reas. The article draws parallels between LeWitt's instructions for wall drawings and contemporary works of software art.

Here's a list of links/resources about LeWitt's work:

• Sentences on Conceptual Art by Sol LeWitt
• A Wall Drawing Retrospective at Mass MOCA
• DIY Sol LeWitt
• National Gallery of Art
• NPR's All Things Considered on LeWitt
• Sol LeWitt's Wikipedia Page

Other links about conceptual art, fluxus and instructional artworks:

• Grapefruit by Yoko Ono
• Selected Instruction Pieces by Yoko Ono
• 100(11) Instruction Works by Kanarinka
• The Fluxus Performance Workbook
• Fluxus Portal - history, archive, & news about Fluxus art
• blog post about Instructional Art
• a definition of Conceptual Art
• one definition of fluxus art
• one article about Fluxus
• Do IT at e-flux
• Life in Fluxus by Arthur Danto
• Programming for Dummies