Eyebeam 2007 Eco-Vis Challenge - The Eco-Vis Challenge

Eco-Vis Challenge at Eyebeam
Join the Challenge!
Imagine better ways of living:
Picture ecology and be in the draw to win cash prizes and exhibit at Eyebeam

Not only is there an environmental crisis, but an environmental data crisis. Viewing statistics on environmental change is usually overwhelming, unintelligible, hidden and dense. On September 15, Eyebeam invites artists to collaborate with technologists to redefine what the future of tracking and visualizing the environment could be.

The Challenge

1. Eco Icons
Create one or many information graphics that could be used to make visible environmental / ecological concerns

Thematically, these are icons that engage the politics of information and the persuasion of graphics. Examples of icons could include logos for web sites, stickers to place on objects or buildings, drawings/patterns to draw or stencil on to streets and buildings, stickers/tags that could be shopdropped in stores with information about the environmental impact of a product. You can invent a whole range of icons and their uses. Be creative!

The Eco Icons Challenge will end Monday, November 5, 2007.

2. Eco-Vis

Create an eco-visualization based on at least one set of ecological impact data

Your job as an “eco-visualizer” is to reveal hidden ways of thinking and to suggest alternative frameworks to a theme or various themes, and at least one data set. This could take the form of dynamic data visualization, a print graphic, a real-world intervention, or some other inventive form. The key is to create a greater understanding of the theme or data through clear and inventive design.

The Eco-Vis Challenge will end Saturday, December 8, 2007.

Winning designs will be awarded cash prizes and, along with finalists, be included in an upcoming Eyebeam exhibition. Detailed guidelines were released on September 15, in conjunction with the Conflux Festival.

For more information and theme ideas, contact Paul Amitai, Program and Events Coordinator, email: paulATeyebeamDOTorg, phone: 212.937.6580 ext. 234.

This challenge is an initiative of Eyebeam’s Sustainability Research Group and has been crafted by Research Group members and Eyebeam Alumni, Michael Mandiberg and Brooke Singer.