{"id":347,"date":"2005-09-16T18:37:44","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T18:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2005-09-16T18:37:44","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T18:37:44","slug":"making_visible_the_invisible_g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/making_visible_the_invisible_g\/","title":{"rendered":"making visible the invisible: george legrady installation at seattle central library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice companion piece to the <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/the_database_of.html\">&#8220;database of intentions&#8221;<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgelegrady.com\/\">George Legrady<\/a>&#8216;s new installation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mat.ucsb.edu\/~g.legrady\/glWeb\/Projects\/spl\/spl.html\">&#8220;Making Visible the Invisible,&#8221;<\/a> at the Rem Koolhaas-designed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spl.org\/images\/slideshow\/NewCentralSlideshow.asp\">Seattle Central Library<\/a>. Six large LED display panels suspended above the &#8220;mixing chamber&#8221; on the library&#8217;s fifth floor display a series of visualizations depicting the circulation of library books and other media across time and classification area, providing &#8220;a real-time living picture of what the community is thinking.&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>KeyWord Map Attack<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"legrady visible2.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/legrady visible2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"167\" \/><br \/>\nLegrady described the project at the <a href=\"http:\/\/transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu\/\">Transliteracies<\/a> conference this past June in Santa Barbara. At that time, Bob blogged:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the pinpoint accuracy of computer-searches, leaves those of us lucky enough to have spent time in library stacks, nostalgic for the unexpected discovery of something we didn&#8217;t know we were looking for but which just happened, serendipitously, to be on a nearby shelf. George Legrady, artist and prof at UC Santa Barbara, just showed a project he is working on for the new public library in Seattle that gave the first glimpse of serendipity in online library searching which lets you see all the books that have recently been checked out on a particular subject. Beautiful and Exciting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Vital Statistics<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"legrady visible3.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/legrady visible3.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"167\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Floating Titles<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"legrady visible4.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/legrady visible4.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"167\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Dot Matrix Rain<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"legrady visible5.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/legrady visible5.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"167\" \/><br \/>\nOther observations:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/visualart\/240371_library13.html\">&#8220;New piece for Central Library pushes art to the technical edge&#8221;<\/a> in Seattle Post Intelligencer<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/making_visible_the_unvisible.html\"><br \/>\nInformation Aesthetics profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice companion piece to the &#8220;database of intentions&#8221; is George Legrady&#8216;s new installation, &#8220;Making Visible the Invisible,&#8221; at the Rem Koolhaas-designed Seattle Central Library. 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