{"id":967,"date":"2007-05-02T13:48:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2007-05-02T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T13:48:04","slug":"monkeybook_2_an_evening_with_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/monkeybook_2_an_evening_with_b\/","title":{"rendered":"monkeybook 2: an evening with brad paley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"monkeytownsketch.jpg\" img style=\"margin:15px;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/monkeytownsketch.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"190\" align=\"right\"\/> Monkeybook is an occasional series of new media evenings hosted by the Institute for the Future of the Book at Monkeytown, Brooklyn&#8217;s premier video art venue. For our second event, we are thrilled to present brilliant interaction designer, friend and collaborator W. Bradford Paley, who will be giving a live tour of his work on four screens. <b>Next Monday, May 7.<\/b> New Yorkers, save the date!<br \/>\nBrad is one of those rare individuals: an artist who is also a world-class programmer. His work focuses on making elegant, intuitive visualizations of complex data, in projects ranging from TextArc, a dazzling visual concordance of a text (a version of which was <a href=\"http:\/\/web.futureofthebook.org\/mckenziewark\/gamertheory3.0\/textarc\">presented<\/a> with the new Gamer Theory edition), to a wireless handheld device used by traders at the New York Stock Exchange to keep up with the blitz of transactions. It&#8217;s a crucial area of experimentation that addresses one of the fundamental problems of our time: how to make sense of too much information. And in a field frequently characterized by empty visual titillation, Brad&#8217;s designs evince a rare lucidity and usefulness. They convey meaning beautifully &#8211; and beauty meaningfully.<br \/>\nBrad is always inspiring when talking about his stuff, which is going to look absolutely stunning in the Monkeytown space. If you&#8217;re in the area, be sure not to miss this. For those of you who don&#8217;t know it, Monkeytown is unique among film venues in New York &#8212; an intimate room with a gigantic screen on each of its four walls, low comfy sofas and fantastic food. A strange and special place. If you think you can come, be sure to make a reservation ASAP as seating will be tight.<br \/>\nMore info <a href=\"http:\/\/monkeytownhq.com\/monkeybook2.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/monkeybook.html\">Monkeybook 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monkeybook is an occasional series of new media evenings hosted by the Institute for the Future of the Book at Monkeytown, Brooklyn&#8217;s premier video art venue. For our second event, we are thrilled to present brilliant interaction designer, friend and collaborator W. Bradford Paley, who will be giving a live tour of his work on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,721,723,877,1220,1956,1968],"tags":[2696],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bradpaley","category-gam3r_7h3ory","category-gamertheory","category-infoviz","category-monkeybook","category-video","category-visualization","tag-monkeybook-video-visualization-infoviz-bradpaley-gam3r_7h3ory-gamertheory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}