Project: an interactive data visualization project from the marriage market in the People’s park in Shanghai.
English version: https://interaction.sixthtone.com/feature/2018/Shanghai-Marriage-Market-Data/index.html
Chinese version (identical): http://image.thepaper.cn/html/zt/2018/08/seekinglove/index.html
Following up interactive program:
(English) https://interaction.sixthtone.com/feature/2018/How-I-Matched-Your-Mother/index.html
(Chinese) http://projects.thepaper.cn/zt/2018/xiangqin/index.html
I encountered this website when I was preparing for a research project on the interpersonal interaction in the people’s park in Shanghai. Not only is this website an interactive one where the user could click, hover, or scroll the screen to trigger some function but it also provides socially significant information in an artistic way.
This project inspires me because it makes boring statistics easy and interesting to read on the platform of the internet as the medium. My understanding of media art is basically “media + art,” or the artistic communication/illustration via a platform that is up-to-date. This project by Sixth Tone utilizes the web to tell a story, and it is a practical and artistic use of media. It also inspires me that doing an art project, I could also make it socially significant.