GraDiM
Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality: Visualizing a Photo Archive About Diaspora
VIS
We are at IEEE VIS 2025 in Vienna. Gianna-Carina Grün shares the poster »What Makes Data Visualizations Difficult to Understand? Not Their Dimensionality, Evidence Shows« about her doctoral research, Mark-Jan Bludau co-organizes the 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities VIS4DH, and Marian Dörk presents the paper titled »Textarium: Entangling Annotation, Abstraction and Argument« at that workshop.
Textarium: Entangling Annotation, Abstraction and Argument
We present a web-based environment that connects annotation, abstraction, and argumentation during the interpretation of text. As a visual interface for scholarly reading and writing, Textarium combines human analysis with lightweight computational …
KUI
Markus Kreutzer presents the paper »Phygital Vocabulary: Speculative Terms to Discuss the Implications of Emerging Reality-Forming Interfaces« at the annual Culture and Computer Science conference in Berlin.
Laying it all out: Collage as a co-creative method for designing collection interfaces
As a co-creative method, collage can stimulate the design of collection visualizations by integrating diverse materials and perspectives. This retrospective reflects on a decade of workshops with over 15 partners in the arts and humanities, …
IPPSO
Exploring the Future of Phygital Public Spaces
Visualizing Cultural Collections
Project course on visualizing a Jewish diaspora photo archive with Frédéric Brenner & GraDiM. Teams design novel visual overviews and data stories, linking semantics, relations, and visuals. The course work spans data analysis to prototypes, yielding a research paper and web prototype.
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Stereoscopic Journals: An archive interface entangling diary segments with photo series
The digital publication of a vast and diverse cultural collection is the starting point for an investigation on the relationship between intermediality, narration, data and cultural heritage, that converge into the design of an interface model that …
DH
We are in Lisbon for DH2025 with several contributions: Viktoria Brüggemann and Mark-Jan Bludau talk about collage as co-creative design method. Silvia Casavola presents her MA project Stereoscopic Journals, which she carried out in GraDiM. And Kirill Mitsurov, presents a poster on 3D Stories.
Interactive Information
This course embraces the web as a versatile and expressive medium for creating information-rich and dynamic interfaces. From buttons and boxes to events and animation, students will learn the basic building blocks for prototyping interactive web pages for diverse audiences and platforms.
Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality. Visualizing a Photo Archive about the Jewish Diaspora
Finding evocative and sensitive digital representations for cultural heritage collections requires careful implementation and collaboration, encompassing data modeling, cataloging, ideation and prototyping. In this article, we present …
Un/Foldables
Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of 101 Un/Foldable Data Visualizations
Information is Beautiful Award
»I Want a Better Catastrophe: A Flowchart for Navigating our Climate Predicament« wins Gold at the Information is Beautiful Awards, which are organized by the Data Visualization Society.
Inflecting Data Visualizations for Web-based Scrollytelling
We propose the idea of inflections as a method for capturing and conveying interpretative interactions with data visualizations. Aiming to narrow the gap between data analysis and story authoring, inflections are subtle modulations of a …
EuroVis
We are at EuroVis 2025 in Luxembourg. Mark-Jan Bludau presents a state of the art report on un/foldable data visualizations and Theresa Eingartner gives a talk on inflections of data visualizations.
3D Stories
Telling Stories about Historical Dress
V³
Mark-Jan Bludau participates in the 2025 Workshop on Visualization, Visual Analytics, and Visual Computing (V3) in Neustrelitz, Germany.