- 學位論文
城市地圖資訊可視化再現
The Re-presentation and Data Visualization in Urban Maps
摘要
本論文所探討的內容是藉由觀察、感知城市街頭的文化,將其轉化為資訊可視化 的作品。從中本人分成三個部分,城市、地圖、及資訊工具,藉著這三個部分個別的 探討以及相互的關連,來說明使用資訊作為描述城市的一種概念,並以畢業製作兩件 作品〈聲道〉及〈“磚”清一格〉來詮釋探討。 作品〈聲道〉是從感知交通車流的吵雜為開始,從中尋找與城市街頭的相關數據, 如車流、人流、行人過街速度......等資訊,將數據轉化為一個小型程式系統,此程式 系統是以圖形化程式 Max/MSP 撰寫,把城市的交通相關資訊做可視化呈現,使程式與 城市交通相關事件做一一對應。在展場時把 Max/MSP 後端圖形化程式執行架構展示出 來,讓程式本身看起來就像一個城市。 作品〈“磚”清一格〉是以網路資訊的搜尋為討論基礎,因 Google 搜尋工具所帶 來的網路介入生活的困擾,本人從中提出一個反思,我們是否有權利決定我們如何被 搜尋?本人把不合理的搜尋結果所對應事件地點,以實際「清理一格瓷磚」的網路行 動藝術方式做抗議,並把過程再現於網路地圖上。 在本論文《城市地圖資訊可視化再現》探討的城市文化、資訊的定義、以及以地 圖作為媒介,它所帶來的感知以及社會的變化。在本人畢業製作〈聲道〉及〈“磚” 清一格〉兩件作品以地圖的「定位」以及「找方向」來作為概念的陳述,顯示不管是 在城市或是在數位時代裡的每一個人,其實都是是置身其間的一個小資訊。
並列摘要
This thesis discusses the observation of a city and the perception of urban street culture, and then transforms the data into two artworks. The thesis emphasizes three parts: the city, the information and the perception. The thhesis discusses the individuality and mutual relations of the three parts and presents the concepts of the urban descriptions found in the data. The main themes of my two dialectical artworks are “Soundsacpe Road” and “Clean a "Block" ”. My artwork “Soundsacpe Road” starts from analysing the noise of traffic, and then using related data, including the variations of traffic, pedestrian flow and pedestrians crossing the street. It then reverts the data into a small system. This system was made using the graphical program, Max/MSP. A visual rendering of information from the urban street programm and the urban traffic’s one-to-one relationship of the executive program, shown at the exhibition. It makes the graphical diagram of the program look like a “real city”. My artwork “Clean a "Block" ” starts from analysing information found from the Internet. It is based on the concept that Google search engine bring the disturbance in our daily life when we use it to search information. I provided a dissenting opinion – "Do we have the right to decide how we are searched by Google? " To actualise my opinion, I cleaned up a "block" in city related to the location of the information about me searched by Google. The cleaning action is remonstrance for Google. And I re-presented all the photo and video of the cleaning action behavior into Google Maps as a web artistic form. This thesis, “Re-presentation of Data Visualization in Urban Maps”, discusses urban culture, data definition, the use of maps as a type of media, perception and social change. I created two artworks “Soundsacpe Road” and “Clean a "Block" ”, using “map idea” to represent the concepts of “locating” and “looking for the direction”. It appeals to everyone in the city and in the digital era – we are “a small pice of information in Internet”.