Edward Tufte: Art and Science
By Edward Tufte
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"The Leonardo da Vinci of data." THE NEW YORK TIMES "One visionary day....the insights of this class lead to new levels of understanding both for creators and viewers of visual displays." WIRED Edward Tufte has written seven books, including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. He writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on analytical design, which have received more than 40 awards for content and design. He is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught courses in statistical evidence, information design, and interface design. This podcast contains his recent works in analytical design and landscape sculpture.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoRocket Science #2 (Lunar Lander) - Installation at the Aldrich Museum, May 2009 | -- | 5/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoEscaping Flatland - Installation 2009 | -- | 3/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoET Twig 2 Installation | -- | 2/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoInstallation of the Larkin's Twig | We installed this piece (many cranes and rigging operations) in the bitter cold in January 2004. I'm grateful to Tallix (a foundry in Beacon, New York) and to United Concrete (Yalesville, Connecticut) for all their help. It is called "Larkin's Twig" because several years before the installation Graham Larkin, then a graduate student in Art History at Harvard, worked as my intellectual assistant, teaching me some art history and providing materials to read and think about in a kind of correspondence course and tutorial. When Graham came to visit, he would bring a little something each time, such as a book or, once, a beautiful twig about 12 inches high with a very nice natural geometry and graceful, but not mechanically graceful, curves. For years, Larkin's twig sat in an honored place in our library and then in our kitchen. Why not make the twig 32 times bigger? How will it scale up? Should X, Y, and Z scale up differently? (Yes) What should the material be? How will the steel rust? What parts should be revised, extended, modified, reshaped? How is it to hit the land? How will it belong in the natural environment of the landscape? In relation to trees, land contours, and other pieces in the field? What is the proper orientation of the piece and the resulting cast shadows? How will shadows vary in different seasons of the year? How can mock-ups be built to test ideas out? What about structural engineering issues? A Cooper's Hawk perched on a two-thirds scale wooden mockup, will that happen on the steel and do we add a bird-perch? What does it all mean? And so on. For more on Larkin's Twig and other artwork by Edward Tufte visit http://edwardtufte.com | 11/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoSeeing Around | This combination of real-land pieces, a movie, and still-land images is to demonstrate the multiplicity of visual experiences available from certain art works. The name of the 2009 show at the Aldrich Museum is Seeing Around. | 8/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoEscaping Flatland - Sunlight Studies | -- | 6/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoPorta and the Birds | Slow-motion movies of animals are often wonderful. Such movies reveal previously unavailable information about the complexity and dynamics of motion that we have seen only in fast-paced real time. The early slow-motion work of Marey and Muybridge dealt largely with animal motion. Marey published The Flight of Birds; and Muybridge, Animal Locomotion. High-speed cameras (now relatively inexpensive) provide all sorts of fresh and interesting slow-motion views of sports, your dogs or cats, dance, water--as well as the usual explosions, bullets through apples, breaking eggs. It would be wonderful to see Max Diving in slow motion as well as in the sequential stills in Beautiful Evidence. More on http://www.edwardtufte.com | 5/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoFlameTheater | -- | 4/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoiPhone Resolution | -- | 3/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoBirds Sculpture Series | The first 25 of the Birds series were made from anodized aluminum; the new pieces - from stainless steel. For more artwork by Edward Tufte go to edwardtufte.com Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata No. 13 In B Flat Major, K.333 Brendan Kinsella | 2/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoRocket Science Sculpture, Installation | Rocket Science, a new landscape artwork, was recently installed in a rolling meadow. The piece is large, about 32 feet (or 10 meters) hight and 72 feet (22 meters) long, and is constructed from 48,000 pounds (22,000 kilograms) of rusting steel. Rocket Science is documented at http://www.edwardtufte.com ; this video shows the 2-day installation, compressed into 4 minutes via time-lapse imaging. | 12/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoEscaping Flatland - Winter Sunset | -- | 12/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoSkewed Machine Sculpture | Time-lapse video of the installation of the Skewed Machine sculpture in August 2007 | 12/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoZZ Smile | ZZ Smile, stainless steel, 18 feet high, 2007 Time-lapse film with moon eclipsing behind the sculpture and the sunrise. | 12/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoLarkin's Twig - Shadow Studies | It is called "Larkin's Twig" because several years ago Graham Larkin, then a graduate student in Art History at Harvard and now a Fellow at Stanford, worked as my intellectual assistant, teaching me some art history and providing materials to read and think about in a kind of correspondence course and tutorial. When Graham came to visit, he would bring a little something each time, such as a book or, once, a beautiful twig about 12 inches high with a very nice natural geometry and graceful, but not mechanically graceful, curves. For years, Larkin's twig sat in an honored place in our library and then in our kitchen. Why not make the twig 32 times bigger? How will it scale up? Should X, Y, and Z scale up differently? (Yes) What should the material be? How will the steel rust? What parts should be revised, extended, modified, reshaped? How is it to hit the land? How will it belong in the natural environment of the landscape? In relation to trees, land contours, and other pieces in the field? What is the proper orientation of the piece and the resulting cast shadows? How will shadows vary in different seasons of the year? How can mock-ups be built to test ideas out? What about structural engineering issues? A Cooper's Hawk perched on a two-thirds scale wooden mockup, will that happen on the steel and do we add a bird-perch? What does it all mean? And so on. Any good 3-dimensional sculpture cannot be captured by one-eyed flatland photographs. This can be seen very strongly with Richard Serra's amazing work at Dia-Beacon. One of many tests of a piece is that photographs do little justice to the reality. That is, you have to be there. How else can volumes in the air be seen? -Edward Tufte http://edwardtufte.com | 11/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoWavefields | Using HD video to show the complex and beautiful, these elegant sketches suggest new methods for depicting vast amounts of information. For more see http://edwardtufte.com | 11/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoMillstone | Rotating Millstone sculpture in summer. For more artwork by Edward Tufte go to www.edwardtufte.com | 8/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
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