Tess Takahashi / Independent Scholar

Tess Takahashi is an independent Toronto-based scholar who writes on and programs experimental media, documentary film, and art installation. This essay comes out of a longer book project entitled Magnitude: Documentary Art Encounters with Big Data. She is a member of the editorial collective for the feminist film journal Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media. Her writing has appeared there, as well as in Cinema Journal, CinemaScope, Animation, MIRAJ, and numerous other venues.

Data Visualization, Loops, and the Taming of Big Data: Wind Map
Tess Takahashi / Independent Scholar

September 19, 2016 Tess Takahashi / Independent Scholar Leave a comment

In her contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Tess Takahashi discusses the creation of Wind Map, a looped media project that replicates a real-time live feed, in relation to data visualization strategies and anxieties circulating around Big Data and the fear there is now “too much to know.”

Data Visualization, Loops, and the Taming of Big Data: Wind Map Tess Takahashi / Independent Scholar

Data Visualization, Loops, and the Taming of Big Data: Wind Map
Tess Takahashi / Independent Scholar