_realiter: Experimental Artwork

datagrafy (german: datengraphie) is a form of data / information art and digital art. It uses arbitrary data (Pictures, Video, Audio, Text, Numbers) as source material. But i also uses raw data as "drawing material". That makes datagrafy unique. Artefacts (Datagrafies) are created by self-developed software (currently datengraphie 1.7.0.0/qu), while source materials may stem from third parties. Datagrafies may be graphics, video or audio. Datagrafies consist of Daxels (Pi-xel -> Data-xel -> Da-xel), which have ususally x and y > 1. Pixels are with x==y==1 special cases of daxels. Datagrafies as a whole are usaully quite large (1m x 1m up to 5m x 5m). Because of that they have to be scaled down for being shown digitally. This implies, that one of the core characteristics of datagrafy is not visible when shown digitally: The detail level when getting close and the existence of superordinate structure while being far. Especially for Video-Datagrafies (Mode: datengraphie.vid*) current off-the-shelf PCs may be a challenge - or: vice versa. Videos with resolutions > 4000 are not easy to be played. datagrafy defines Iconography of data - the visual language of data.