(Raleigh, NC) - As part of its second annual Code+Art Student Visualization Contest, the NCSU Libraries will reveal stunning visualizations by NC State student artists on Thursday, April 14, from 6:00pm-7:30pm in the Duke Energy Hall C & D at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library.
The contest, sponsored by Christie Digital Systems, was open to submissions in data art, animations, procedural environments, interactive visualizations, and algorithmic generative art. Students were to create visualizations for a variety of large video walls at Hunt Library, including the 20-foot-wide Art Wall and the large curved screen in the iPearl Immersion Theater.
The Libraries will announce the winning entries, award cash prizes to the artists, and put the artworks on display. Student artists will be available at the reception to follow. Both the awards ceremony and reception are free and open to the public.
Libraries have long been places where people have explored new ways of interacting with information and data. The NCSU Libraries’ Code+Art program continues this tradition by focusing an aesthetic lens on the increasing amount of data we encounter.
The first-place winner takes home a prize of $1000, second place receives $500, and third place receives $250. The winning works, and selected other entries, will be exhibited on four video walls throughout Hunt Library from April 16 until April 24th.
For more information, contact Alison Blaine, ablaine@ncsu.edu.