Coders are the new rockstars – People

People (Any further recommendations please send my way as this list is no means definitive)

Karsten Schmidt – Karsten is an incredible coder and designer – His ‘Social Collider’ project with Sascha Pohflepp starts to reveal relationships between conversations on Twitter.

Marius Watz – A great fine artist in his own right – Marius has explored ways of rendering data as physical forms – his wood etchings are beautiful. When exploring visualising stock data for the Knight Capital Group, the end result have an aesthetic of an atom bomb going off. He also runs the generator.x generative art site, vimeo and flickr groups where you can spend hours taking in the work.

Aaron Koblin – The incredibly brave and beautiful Radiohead ‘House of Cards’ promo brought a lot of attention to Aaron and the data vis scene as it was generated entirely by data – Not one to rest on his laurels, he has been quietly plugging away with some bizarre subversions of the Amazon ‘Mechanical Turk’ system. ‘Dollar bills’, ‘George Bush’ and even ‘Daisy Daisy’ go through the crowd sourced blender.

Jer Thorp – If anyone can make beauty out of the new york times then Jer can – His use of the NY Times API as a dataset has started to reveal some inspiring visuals. If you want to get your hands dirty then there are two tutorials to play with – one for the NY Times and one for the Guardian. His recent work ‘Just Landed’ shows how twitter can be mapped to location.

Jonathan Harris / Sep Kamvar – Gleaning emotion and sentiment from the internet and displaying this is a damn hard thing. Making an emotive art piece out of this mass of information is even harder and Jon and Sep continually do this. ‘We Feel Fine’ and ‘I Want You To Be Me’ are two examples of how they visualise emotion scraped from the ether.

Advanced Beauty – Matt Pyke curated twenty motion pieces exploring ‘synasthesia‘ – visualisaing sound. Many of the pieces are based on generative art processes and are showcases for cutting edge motion graphics artists.

Jason Bruges – Jason Bruges heads up an architectural design studio exploring visualising data created in realtime by physical interaction. Some very simple interactions such as wind powering lights or displaying the latent imprint of lift usage by hacking into the building lift interface – Very exciting stuff.

Ben Fry – In my opinion one of the founding fathers of modern data vis and co-created processing – His body of work is staggering and he currently heads up the Seed Media Group.

Casey Reas – Also co-created processing with Ben Fry and has exhibited many generative art pieces in traditional gallery spaces.

Robert Hodgin - I’ve been a massive fan of Robert for more years than I can remember as he is a leading experimental flash designer and coder. He creates pure beautiful eye candy.

Golan Levin – Another artists exploring visualising emotions – ‘The Dumpster’ was a great piece. It scanned the internet for comments about relationships breaking and then visualised them. His physical interaction pieces are hilarious – check ‘Snout’.

Ear Studio – I first encountered ‘Listening Post’ last year at the Science Museum – it was hidden in a dark corner and it was just transfixing – It was a bank of small screens that spoke back snippets from the millions of posts on chat rooms across the internet – effectively giving the internet a spooky synthesised voice.

UVA – A great design studio playing with light, sound, space and architecture.

Marcus Wendt – Marcus and the field.io team are not classical data vis but they are doing some stunning generative artworks.

Pitch Interactive – A really interesting interactive design agency doing some some great vis work.

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