Comments on: Timeline of 20th c. Art and New Media

By: Amrit Narkar

Amrit Narkar — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:50:00 +0000

thank you very much i will use your timeline for my thesis work its is really amazing n nicely presented and also very rhetorical really nice work thank u again

By: lynn hurst

lynn hurst — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:15:42 +0000

I just saw your thesis page. Very interesting work! (forget my Tufte comment, you are obviously familiar.) I completed my last year of Masters study in fine arts at UCSB back in the 80’s. Currently in New Zealand.

By: lynn hurst

lynn hurst — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:05:09 +0000

I’m happy to find this! You have undertaken an excellent endeavor! I agree with someone up there who said to look at Edward Tufte, just in case you haven’t already. He has written several books on information graphics.

What I was looking for when I found this was a quick view of the historical relationship of linguistics, semiotics, structuralism, deconstructivism etc. and to find out if there really was something called “post-mediumism”.

Keep up the good work.

Lynn

By: Ruslan V

Ruslan V — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:17:35 +0000

Very interesting!

more please,

Ruslan V,

By: admin

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:05:52 +0000

Thanks. I just posted an updated version, with several fixes.

By: George Papadatos

George Papadatos — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:38:22 +0000

Very impressive; another quick nit: it’s Roland Barthes not Barthe.

By: André Cardoso

André Cardoso — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:21:59 +0000

Hello,
I really liked your infographic; it’s very good.
One question: where is Marcel Duchamp? I can´t seem to find him.

Best regards
Andre Cardoso

By: Lydia

Lydia — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:58:44 +0000

This is an incredible timeline - visually exciting and I find it clever how you map contemporary art within the context of popular culture and political events - You have taken the tool of ‘timeline’ to extraordinary limits - the complexity of this time period woven neatly into bar sizes, colors and connections.

I teach art and have been thinking about creating my own art time-lines lately, just for my own personal research. I also find that the only way to create a good timeline with all the complexities of subtle variance, graphic design tools are the best. I’ve been using Adobe Photoshop, I am not as well versed in Illustrator.

Thank you for posting this!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:54:08 +0000

Thanks for the interest. The timeline was done with Adobe Illustrator. I am a fan of very dense, manually designed timelines that are carefully laid out to pack as much meaning into one space as possible. I have worked with timeline generation software, but find they ultimately fall short because there are simply too many things one wants to visualize simultaneously, and timeline software is not sensitive to the many other things I intend to include. Thus, I take a graphic design approach instead.

By: Edward

Edward — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:07:18 +0000

I saw your very interesting multi-timeline of 20th Century Art and New Media. I myself am preparing
a complex timeline of work in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, etc. I have been looking for
good software to assist me in this. Did you use a software package to do your timeline work? If so, which one, and were you happy with it?

Edward Feigenbaum
Prof. of Computer Science, Stanford University
feigenbaum@cs.stanford.edu