On Broadway

Lev Manovich
Source: Lev Manovich

Lev Manovich

On Broadway , –
Co-workers & Funding
Daniel Goddemeyer, Moritz Stefaner, Dominikus Baur

Software Studies Initiative (Mehrdad Yazdani, Jay Chow), Brynn Shepherd and Leah Meisterlin, PhD students at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (Agustin Indaco, Michelle Morales, Emanuel Moss, Alise Tifentale).
The project uses software tools developed by Software Studies Initiative with the support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and National Endowment for Humanities.
http://on-broadway.nyc/
Mnemosyne
Last updated:
Documents
  • Lev Manovich
    On Broadway
    image/jpeg
    3254 × 2274
Description
Interactive application and a public installation commissioned by New York Public Library for its exhibition "The Public Eye"
How does a "data city" look like? We did not want to show the data in a conventional way using only graphs and numbers. We also did not want to use another convention of showing spatial data – a map. The result of our explorations is "On Broadway": a visually rich image-centric interface, where numbers play only a secondary role, and no maps are used. The project proposes a new visual metaphor for thinking about the city: a vertical stack of image and data layers. There are 13 such layers in the project, all aligned to locations along Broadway. Using our unique interface (available as the online app and in large multi-touch screen installed at New York Public Library as part of "The Public Eye" exhibition), you can see all data at once, or zoom and follow Broadway block by block.
Source: Lev Manovich
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • assembled
    • installation-based
    • interactive
    • mobile
  • genres
    • digital graphics
    • installations
      • interactive installations
  • subjects
    • Arts and Visual Culture
      • architecture
Technology & Material
Exhibitions & Events
Bibliography
0 publications