Every year since 2005, the competitive exhibit Places and Spaces: Mapping Science has selected ten maps and data visualizations to add to its growing collection.The most eye-popping of thisyear’s crop of finalists is Ward Shelley’s twisty, tentacle-y “History ofScience Fiction.” Now, at a single glance, you can finally see how the Enlightenment gavebirth to cyber punk:
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Like the Connecticut-based artist’s previous
art
timelines
, this”graphic chronology” is hand drawn and painted on Mylar.
[ Via MetaFilter . More information on the exhibit at Wired Science .]
Image courtesy of WardShelley/Parsons The New School for Design.
Update Mar. 14:
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Brow Beat’s interview with Ward Shelley
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