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We all visualize more than we think, and this activity can be shared to help the orientation of the mind. Visualizing distils the essence of communication, renders complex ideas understandable during presentations, creates memorable imagery to foster and inspire teamwork.
Icastic offers a design service: we are graphic and web designers, illustrators and renderers specialized in visualizing.
Our clients are consultants, trainers, companies and organizations that make use of visuals in presentations to illustrate concepts, map processes, identify trends and envision scenarios.
“I am offering a new service that is not easy to explain. It helps evaluating the motivation and potential of staff members in medium/large organizations, but most Austrian companies look at it with suspicion - so Christine De Jong, Vienna. Icastic helped me conceive a metaphor that not only symbolizes the core business, but breaks the ice during presentations with a laugh”.
Image 1: Artist’s comment: Duration differs from time. There is nothing to move but it is contained.
Image 2: Artist’s comment: Now, emerging from duration, time has passed. Stuff is all around, moving.
These two images project a challenging view of time. In Image 1, the curved line around the central dot can be seen as the two-dimensional cross section of a vessel containing a nucleus but otherwise empty. This in turn may be imagined as the universe before the Big Bang - the open line representing an imaginary boundary, the dot representing the compressed nucleus of matter.
In Image 2, the Big Bang occurs, matter is dispersed throughout space. A wonderful depiction of the history of time! We can imagine that time began with the Big Bang, and that, if time had a beginning, it may well have an end, possibly when matter fills all of space. The artist alludes to the no-time state as ‘duration’, which we have imagined as the timeless condition before the Big Bang. Thus, he pictures the transition from no-time to time as the advent and dispersion of matter, tieing time to matter. In totally empty infinity time is unimaginable. Nor can we imagine time in infinity totally filled with matter. These are but two of hundreds of images collected in visualization workshops that challenge our imagination to ponder the mystery of time.
Peter Edler, Stockholm [ blog ]
Visualizing is about the distribution of data in space - about breaking free from searching along the timeline of textual information. It allows a more intuitive and subjective wayfinding. Along this brimming edge of data display, the new visual search engine oSkope was just born. It browses images and videos from Flickr, Amazon, eBay and YouTube, and displays them as Grid, Stack, List, Graph or Pile. The latter reminds of a desk right after (or right before) a wild creative working session.
While working together with the members of the Society for Deceleration of Time [ Verein zur Verzögerung der Zeit - the name is left long on purpose so that we are all forced to take the time to pronounce it… ] in the workshop Visualizing Time, it was only a natural consequence to try and visualize the second subject ot the Symposium, Education. Many images that emerged were given a title: The Edge of Knowledge, Beware of my Education, L’enfant farci, Endless Fill. Here a crumpled paper, with cancelled words, a hole in the centre: Eureka.
Icastic Visualizing Time will be presented in Wagrain, Austria at the annual Symposium of the Society for Deceleration of Time.
This year’s topic “Zeit und Bildung” can hardly be translated into “Time and Education”. A beautiful word in German, Bildung incorporates the notion of Bild (image) as to suggest the capacity, through training, of envisioning a life’s professional path, as well as the notion of Bilden, “forming” or shaping a student to learn and achieve her/his potential.
The non-profit Society for Deceleration of Time was founded in 1990 by professor Dr. Peter Heintel, Klagenfurt, Austria, as an approach to suggest a thoughtful attitude towards time on a collective basis seeking new ways of dealing with the phenomon of time. The name of the society is meant to be somewhat provocative. However, it is also suggesting that the subject of deceleration should be given more attention in our culture and the present time than is the case in the process of acceleration we are exposed to.