KANDINSKY: Social Discussion Visualization Meets Abstract Art
By Christina Lui | Student category
“Digitalisation does make ease of a lot of traditional art skills, which are trained from diligence and patience. However, because of the ease of time-consuming art processes, we re-think the definition of art today and unleash a brand new area of creativity.”
~ Christina Lui
KANDINSKY is a novel end-to-end visualisation system for social media analysis. It supports multi-faceted visualisation of social discussions associated with an anchor post. In KANDINSKY, the social discussion landscape is visualised using a collection of colourful circles and concentric circles, which are inspired from the famous abstract arts called “Colour Study. Squares with Concentric Circles” and “Several Circles” by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). Intuitively, a circle and a concentric circle represent a social comment and a collection of comments in a discussion thread, respectively.
Location
ADM Gallery 1
About the Artist
Christina Lui is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Digital Media Technology at the NTU School of Computer Science and Engineering. Her work is inspired by Kandinsky’s abstract art. Through the visualization of colorful circles and concentric circles she is exploring a new perspective of representing social comments in the language of abstract art.