Sapping Attention
Sapping Attention
Sapping Attention
Sapping Attention
Sapping Attention
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As media viewers today, accustomed to the charts and graphs of Microsoft Excel, or to the interactive features on The New York Times frontpage, we tend to think that visualizations of data should be clear and intuitive, and yield immediate insight—or, alternately, we look to visualization techniques to help us make sense of the underlying data.
But what would it mean if we took a different view of what visualization could do? What would it mean if a visualization was designed to be difficult and abstract? If it was intended to send us back to the original source of the data in order to make sense of the image we encountered? What if the goal of visualization was to allow each person, individually, to interpret the image for herself?
Sapping Attention
Sapping Attention
Sapping Attention
Sapping Attention
Sapping Attention