0 Software studies - 2 directions
- softwarestudies.com

1 Prologue: 1905

2 1945: Memex etc - computers were created to manage information growth - but they create more info
-memex     
-quotes from Science magazine
I want more info - not less

3 1988: creation of visualization field by NSF 
- SDSC
- cultural criticism: close reading/deconsruction vs. science: big data

4 1998-2008: over last 10 years - visualization emerging as a new area of culture
- history flow
- Business week article about Martin
- Staten design
- Staten travel-time map
- infoaesthetics.com
- visualcomplexity.com
- IAN building etc  (RESOURCES)
- Wolkvagen (RESOURCES)
-Seattle Library
-Ear Studio
Dynamic visualization as a new logo of a company/institution - representation of dynamic process rather than static identity
- sharedeggg

5 2000s digitization of existing cultural assets
-Artstor
-Google Books

6 2005 – social media / user generated content - exponential growth of cultural information today produced by non-professionals
Flickr
Firebox - pic lens

7 2000s: similar growth of global culture industries: professional educational institutions, actors, and cultural projects
carbonmade.com
colorflot.com
arhinect.com
xplsv.tv

culture is one sector which still is not dealing with “information bomb” 
Blow Up (1966)
Blade Runner (1982)
Minority Report (2002)
CSI

8 Conclusion:
Cultural analytics: study of cultural processes, dynamics and patterns by analyzing and visualizing large data sets

9 Examples of tools / data sets / interfaces:
-MIT reality mining 
-blogpulse
-Dumpster by Golan Levin
-mapofscience

geosystem a la
-Zillow

-Hiperwall

10 Postscript:

"The next decade will produce a revolution in the use of archived, simulation, and near real-time data to guide future decisions and research directions."

“"As we switch from small collectives of data into very large amounts of information,  the kinds of questions we can ask change from parochial questions to global questions.  And global questions, I think, are increasingly in urgent need of attention."

  David Patterson, manage for the Encyclopedia of Life, on online reference for 1.9 million known plant and animal species. (Quoted in "All of life," Seed: Science as Nature 14, p. 60.