Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity

http://www.ted.com Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the "Wilderness Downtown" video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/tednews Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives https://www.facebook.com/TED

Topics:

["TEDtalks", "TED", "Aaron Koblin", "art", "visualizing", "humanity", "koblin", "data", "visual", "visualization", "crowdsource", "interface", "internet", "web", "www", "communication", "story", "parameters", "picture", "outsource", "crowd source", "java", "javascript", "html", "java script", "collaboration", "MIT", "SENSEable City", "sensible city", "lab", "johnny cash", "music", "video", "sheep", "flights", "narration", "message"]

Duration

Duration minutes: 18

Duration seconds: 34