»Imagining Macondo« 
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© Andres Burbano, George Legrady, Angus Forbes
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Information
Andres Burbano >
»Imagining Macondo«, 2015 - 2015
Co-Workers & Funding:
George Legrady, Angus Forbeshttps://www.evl.uic.edu/documents/forbes_macondo_cga2015.pdf
Technology
Hardware
Node.js serverInstallation Requirements / Space
pavilion (first installation)10 m curved screen
user interfaces/mobil user interface
interactive kiosks for submitting images
Software
Data VisualisationSOM Algorhythm
client-side JavaScript module using the D3 JavaScript library
imaga database: PostgreSQL database
Descriptions & Essays
Andres Burbano 15-05-2018
Imagining Macondo is a public artwork that commemorates Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garci?a Ma?rquez. It was first showcased at the Bogota International Book Fair in April 2015 to an audience of more than 300,000 over the course of two weeks. The project involved extensive collaboration between an international team of artists, designers, and programmers. This article explores the historical and artistic contexts for the creation of the work, discusses the audience reception to the work, and describes the significant software and production requirements necessary to create an installation with thousands of participants and hundreds of thousands of viewers.
Andres Burbano: Imagining Macondo, 15-05-2018, in: Archive of Digital Art Imagining Macondo is a public artwork that commemorates Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garci?a Ma?rquez. It was first showcased at the Bogota International Book Fair in April 2015 to an audience of more than 300,000 over the course of two weeks. The project involved extensive collaboration between an international team of artists, designers, and programmers. This article explores the historical and artistic contexts for the creation of the work, discusses the audience reception to the work, and describes the significant software and production requirements necessary to create an installation with thousands of participants and hundreds of thousands of viewers.
Literature
Burbano, Andres. Legardy, George. Forbes, Angus. »Imagining Macondo: Interacting with García Márquez’s Literary Landscape.« IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 5, no. 35 (JUNE 2015): 6-13.
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