Reviews for Database Aesthetics: Art In The Age Of Information Overflow

The average rating for Database Aesthetics: Art In The Age Of Information Overflow based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-06 00:00:00 Main Lao I read this book for graduate school. Well, I read about half of this book we were assigned sections to read. I did not enjoy reading this book though I found it intriguing. There is a lot of information in it about data manipulation and the intersection of art and technology. Also covered, but not deeply, is how data is stored, retrieved and the ideas behind how we perceive the visual representation of that data. I would in no way describe this book as reading for pleasure nor would I recommend it if someone was just interested in database aesthetics. If you have to read this book, as I did for school, take solace in the fact that you do enjoy reading and that once you finish it, you won't have to ever read it again.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-15 00:00:00 Chris Marshall Database Aesthetics is obviously for a very niche readership. This project grew out of a 1999 special issue of AI & Society.While I found a lot of the essays useful, they are pretty outdated. Even though DA was published in 2007, there's a large gap about big data/data visualization that would've been a welcomed inclusion in this compilation. I really wanted to find some new ideas, but there wasn't much. There were, however, some pretty interesting exhibits/installations used as examples--if anything, that's something positive to take away from this text.