Using the creative process to map n dimensions

摘要

In this information rich age where voluminous amounts of data are being generated, processed, and transformed at ever-increasing rates, how does one master control of this data as if it were intuitive and second nature? Can one master control much in the same way that an artist, composer, or musician creates or performs a work of art, with intuitive precision? In this Keynote I will discuss the use of the creative process in order to conduct advanced research in science and the arts. I will describe research underway at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where a team of artists, scientists and engineers have found a way to work creatively in consort, mapping very largescale (n-dimensional) data sets for scientific and artistic data generation, exploration and transformation. To this end, this author has created, and implemented an instrument that will allow a team of researchers to control and interact with n-dimensional data as one large multi-user instrument. The AlloSphere is a 3-story metal sphere in an echo-free chamber that is built as a design stage, and is performed as an instrumental ensemble would compose and perform a piece of music [1]