A New World
"For a long period of time, we believed in a natural ranking order of the world around us...a top down structure that normally starts with God at the top...Nowadays...a new metaphor is currently emerging...and that metaphor is the metaphor of the network..."—Manuel Lima
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity." — Neuromancer (William Gibson)
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The world around is changing rapidly. For us in technological societies, no longer can we assume our interconnectedness with the world by top-down structures such as Deity-Human, Monarch-Peasant, etc..
What we have now is a world more connected than ever before through digital spaces. This creates new problems, approaches, outlooks, art forms, activities, communities and cultures. Similar to the invention of the Gutenberg Press or even writing eons before, we our live in rapid change.
The idea of using visual information and Data to change the world around isn't new and a prime example of this is Florence Nightingale's Rose Diagrams. Our evolving world is constantly creating endless big data that can be difficult to understand. Digital Humanities interests me because of a love for Data, Visual Information, and a need to help the world around me.