Andrea Polli. 2004. DATAREADER: a tool for art and science collaborations. In Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA '04). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 520-523. DOI=10.1145/1027527.1027654 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1027527.1027654 This paper describes the background and process involved in the creation of 'Datareader' a new custom Max/MSP object designed for artists to more easily work with scientific data. This project grew out of several years of developing software using existing Max/MSP objects to create artworks that translate data to sound (sonification), including a system for performing sound with eye movements and systems for sonifying neural data and data from a highly detailed weather model.

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