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Monday, May 7
Admission: Free
Doortime: 7:30pm
reservations
are recommended
W. Bradford Paley uses computers to create visual displays with
the goal of making readable, clear, and engaging expressions of
complex data. He did his first computer graphics in 1973, founded
Digital
Image Design Incorporated in 1982, and started doing
financial & statistical data visualization in 1986. He has
exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art; he created TextArc.org;
he is in the ARTPORT collection of the Whitney Museum of American
Art; has received multiple grants and awards for both art and
design, and his designs are at work every day in the hands of
brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He is an
adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, and is director
of Information
Esthetics: a fledgling interdisciplinary group exploring
the creation and interpretation of data representations that are
both readable and esthetically satisfying.
In a field frequently characterized by empty visual titillation,
Brad's designs convey meaning beautifully — and beauty meaningfully.
Monkeybook (an occasional new media series from Williamsburg's
own Institute
for the Future of the Book) is delighted to welcome
Brad to Monkeytown to give a live tour of this inspiring body
of work.
Pictured above: detail of McKenzie Wark's book Gamer
Theory inside of TextArc, recently presented by the
Institute for the Future of the Book.
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