How to Know Too Much with Visualization Design

March 28, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Moore 319

How to Know Too Much with Visualization Design
Fan Xiang, Associate Professor, Visual Communication Design Dept., Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Shunshan (Sam) Zhu, Chief Scientist, Dynamic Network Technology Co, Acton, MA
Monday, March 28, 2016
12 – 1:15 pm
Moore Hall 319
Sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies

“How does the notion of scale affect humanities and social science research? Now that scholars have access to huge repositories of digitized data – far more than they could read in a lifetime – what does that mean for research?” (Manovich, 2009)

The purpose of our recent study is to understand the current ideology of China by visualizing a great quantity of images from official art archives. Our presentation describes our methodology and the preliminary results of two projects, “Award Puzzle” and “A Palette of CCTV’s Chinese New Year Gala.”

The first project, Award Puzzle, uses diversified forms of mapping to reveal the preferences of the juries of China’s major national arts awards, and in so doing provides “tips” on how to win such awards and how to keep winning for more than thirty years. An online interactive platform allows the public to explore the tips for success.

The second project, A Palette of CCTV’s Chinese New Year Gala, smashes videos from the Gala and refactors frames into various timelines, thus revealing how red-dominated the Chinese mass media really is. Or is the Chinese mass media not as red-dominated as we assumed?

This is also a bittersweet story of interdisciplinary cooperation between an engineer and a designer.


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This event is FREE and open to the public

Event Sponsor
Center for Chinese Studies, Mānoa Campus

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(808) 956-8891, china@hawaii.edu, http://www.ccs-uhm.org/

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