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Monday, November 03, 2008

Bewitched

It has been a while since I have looked at visual guru Martin Wattenberg's site. Well known for Name Voyager, Market Map and Many Eyes. All worth looking at closely. He is part of IBM's Visual Communications Lab. His most recent project according to the site, Fleshmap:

" ... an inquiry into human desire, its collective shape and individual expressions. In a series of artistic studies, Fernanda ViƩgas and I explore the relationship between the body and its visual and verbal representation ... "
Also interesting that they use Amazon's Mechanical Turk and crowd sourcing company Dolores Labs to gather human perception data. Advertising and marketing applications?

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