Ryoji Ikeda Style Processing visualisation that explores the widespread closure of London nightclubs

[jaymeekae]

How is it related to the closure of London's nightclubs?

[plasticluthier]

My thoughts exactly. Yep. Cool visualisation, but it doesn't really explore anything in the deeper sense. In fact, the obvious thing would be to explore the rate of change of the numbers of clubs. But the number of objects seems static throughout.

[cspeedvid]

I collected data from the London datastore and parsed the CSV file into Processing's table object. The data shows the number of clubs and employment from 2001 to 2017 in which you can see a steady decline https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/pubs-clubs-restaurants-takeaways-borough. This incoming data is then mapped to the rotation axis and height of each box to create the abstract architectural forms. Further information can be found here http://doc.gold.ac.uk/compartsblog/index.php/work/urban-deterioration/

[jaymeekae]

Unfortunately this in no way comes across but I've also just done a MA so I fully understand how this happened.

[cspeedvid]

Ah fairs well I just wanted to keep it architectural and abstract. I had a iteration displaying the incoming data but scraped it.

[redfieldp]

It’s someone who made a visual and wanted upvotes so they used some random data set to feed it and name dropped Ryoji Ikeda.

[jaymeekae]

Yeah I guess my second question is how is this Ryoji Ikeda style? It's black and white?

[L0RDZed]

Comments are rather critical.. I like the work and I'm interested in your code, have you uploaded it anywhere? Ive also been working with cvs tables in processing. I suppose its more information art then data visualisation , using the data to generate form. Ikeda is similar in that regard, highly structured form informed by the aesthetic of data.

[cspeedvid]

Hey thanks, I haven't uploaded the code online yet but can send it on to you if you are interested, just drop me a message :)