The Experimental Visualization Lab

A selection of screen captures from the MAT259 Data Visualization course

Weihao Qiu giving his presentation at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, September 2024 for which he received a "Best Paper" award

Word frequency visualization of the Seattle Public Library project data realized at iCinema, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2018)

Art graduate student Adam Jahnke documenting his project with face-recognition robotic cameras and Deep Learning software (2018)

"Extruding Circos" by Mohit Hingorani, a spiral visualization representing performance of programming languages over time (2014)

Weidi Zhang presenting her Virtual Reality software project to UCSB Art Museum Senior Fellow of Research and Media Paksy Plackis-Cheng (2019)

FP-Tree algorithm visualization study of the occurrence of the word "water" in the titles of Seattle Public Library checkouts (2012)

Physics Prof. Lubin explains his custom built deep space radio frequency receptor device. Attending: JV Decemvirale, Hannah Wolfe, Prof. Lubin, Prof. Legrady, Nathen Weitzner (2014)

Camera robots run around in search of faces. Robotic cameras assembled by undergraduate students in the arts185 studio course (fall 2016)

Experimental Visualization Lab

The Experimental Visualization Lab is one of 8 dedicated research labs in the Media Arts & Technology arts-engineering program located on the 2nd floor of Elings Hall (California Nanosystems Institute) at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The lab focuses on creative explorations in the fields of data visualization, visual language, machine vision, computational photography, interactive digital installations and related directions to explore the intersections of computation and visualization in both the arts and engineering.

The lab is directed by Professor George Legrady, an internationally exhibited, multi-disciplinary artist and scholar with projects realized in interactive digital media installations, and computationally generated data and photographic-based visualizations. He is former chair (2013-2017) of the Media Arts & Technology program, and is affiliated on campus with the Department of Art, the Mellichamp Mind & Machine Intelligence, the Center for Black Studies (SEEDS), the Data Science Initiative, the Center for Digital Games Research, and the Center for Information Technology and Society. Legrady is a Guggenheim Fellow with research funded by the Creative Capital Foundation, National Science Foundation, Robert. W Deutsch Foundation, the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UCSB, and others.

Contact

George Legrady
Director
lab 2611, Elings Hall
glegrady [a] ucsb.edu

Lisa Thwing
MAT, managing officer
Phelps Hall 3309
e.mat-info [a] mat.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-5244