Transitioning from Print to Interactive Digital Publishing

PUBLIC is an innovative art journal published by Public Access exploring the intersection between art, technology and contemporary culture. This fellowship develops PUBLIC’s open access interactive web platform, PUBLIC:PORTAL, using information visualization and design to showcase the journal’s cutting-edge collaborative and cross-disciplinary work. Working with the Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology at York University, PUBLIC’s information designers, as well as Public Access’s network of artists and researchers, the fellow will develop the pilot issue of PUBLIC:PORTAL. This project designs and tests graphical user interfaces and visualization strategies to investigate how abstract and complex information can be conveyed through intuitive design. It will also generate new data on effective information design of cultural content and the application of interactive visual exploration in online publishing. PUBLIC:PORTAL will capitalize on the unique potential of the digital platform to construct a responsive and adaptive infrastructure to facilitate collaborations between researchers and artists/designers.

Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Longford

Student:

Partner:

PUBLIC Journal;York University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

New and Digital Media; Information and Communications Technology; Technology

University:

York University

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