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I’ve been banging by head against a wall over what I find interesting about using new media technology to assist in the production of art. Mostly, I’m disenchanted by what I see in New Media works of art. It often comes off like one liners- funny haha fuck you jokes, or simply bad craft with circuit boards.
So I have struggled to find a way to create something meaningful or at least engaging with some of the resources and tools used by new media artists. Personally, I view the camera as a new media device and that’s the tool I reach for first. But I am struck most by how new media can be used to create aggregate datasets.
Since I began my Junk Drawer Project a month or so ago, I have been on the lookout for a way (that I care about) to collect or recontextualize the information in those junk drawers. I started thinking about the kinds of information that we have available that people haven’t applied tag clouds to. We’ve seen tag clouds applied to presidential speeches and other things related to government policy and while these uses of text clouding is interesting- it feels two-dimensional.
I’ve been searching for days (weeks?) to find a tool that I could use to create clouds from large quantities of text and have so far come up blank. From what I have seen so far, it’s also not simply a tag cloud generator that I want. There are text sources of exclusionary terms like to, and, the, but, a, how, etc… I suppose it would be very useful to know what the exclusionary terms are, but for now I’m happy with the results I’m getting from the tool I’m using- which is online.
A starting point to see what I’ve been combing over can be found here-
and the designs that aren’t placing properly in my WP blog…I think I may have to rebuild my blog! shit!