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Gáspár Hajdu [PARTICIPANT]
BEYOND DATA
L AB # 02
‘Arriving at the location itself was an interesting experience. It was huge and completely empty. I was tasked with thinking about a spatial way of presenting the forthcoming installations and ideas. The job was even harder because we did not have that much available material and of course we didn’t really know what type of things we would like to present later. Our main constraints were time and material. The core structure was built of wood. It was meant to be a sort of hub from where the structure could evolve during the week. Improvising such a structure with what we had to hand proved difficult, but when content started flowing and some of the pop-up installations found their place in the space the whole room started to live. It was good to see that a lot of us helped to build it, and even though we couldn’t refine it as much as I had hoped, the process was important to structuring the entire event. I was slightly disappointed because by the time we had finished the job I had very little time left to spend on data embodiment or visualisation. It was only during the final afternoon that I finally could sit down and write a little program sketch based on the same data as Twitter Circles. It was a prototype in a 3D environment where a bird “drops” or “poops” a mesh every second and the shape of the objects changes according to the actual tweet parameters. This anecdote reveals how intense the workshop was, and shows how we managed to interpret/embody the same dataset with different methods.’