Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data - Softcover

Hall, Peter A.; Dávila, Patricio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350077240 ISBN 13: 9781350077249

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022

Synopsis

Information may be beautiful, but our decisions about the data we choose to represent and how we represent it are never neutral. This insightful history traces how data visualization accompanied modern technologies of war, colonialism and the management of social issues of poverty, health and crime. Discussion is based around examples of visualization, from the ancient Andean information technology of the quipu to contemporary projects that show the fate of our rubbish and take a participatory approach to visualizing cities. This analysis places visualization in its theoretical and cultural contexts, and provides a critical framework for understanding the history of information design with new directions for contemporary practice.

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About the Authors

Peter A. Hall is Reader in Graphic Design at CCW, University of the Arts London, UK. His publications include Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data, co-authored with Patricio Dávila (Bloomsbury, 2022), Sagmeister: Made You Look (2009), Else/Where: Mapping - New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, co-edited with Janet Abrams (2005) and Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist (2002).

Patricio Dávila is a designer, artist, researcher and educator. He is Associate Professor in theDepartment of Cinema and Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University, Canada. His most recent publication is Diagrams of Power (2019) based on the international exhibition he curated on critical practice in mapping.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350077240
• ISBN 13: 9781350077249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256