references / Walter Rafelsberger

References

	GeoSketches Two still images visualizing geo-tagged data. The first image shows the worlds cities with a population of more than 1000. Cities with more than 5 million inhabitants are labeled. Second image visualizes conversations of about 1500 users from microblogging service Twitter. The arcs link positions of people who talk to each other.
	Visualizing Twitter Conversations Screenshots from a prototype developed during my time at MODUL University Vienna. The system is based on Processing and Rhizome Navigation.
	Lord of the Rings Social Network Using Rhizome Navigation I analyzed the protagonist's relationships from the movie ''Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King''. The size of a name relates to how many times it is mentioned within the movie script. The name positions are calculated by parsing the screenplay and analyzing which names appear close to each other in the text.
	Islendingabok Genealogy Visualization For a documentary by Benedikt Bjarnason, Rhizome Navigation was used to create animated visualizations of large genealogy data sets.

	Backdoors Music video for minimal house duo "kilo". The video premiered at Austria's National Film Festival "Diagonale" in 2008 and was aired on GoTV.
	Showreel This is my showreel showing off some work done between 2003 and 2006. I'm quite proud that nearly 80.000 users on Youtube have watched the video so far.
	Fast Film During 2001 to 2003 I led a team of up to 10 animators working on Virgil Widrich's animation short movie "Fast Film". After its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival the movie won 36 international film festival awards and was invited to 289 festivals.

	Sentiment Quiz Sentiment Quiz is an application in the tradition of "Games with a Purpose" for Facebook Platform. It has won the category „Online Communities, Web2.0 und Social Networks“ of Austria's "Multimedia Staatspreis 2008". A scientific paper based on the games underlying framework was accepted for 2009's ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia.
	Twitter Weather Map A simple example to illustrate the hidden power and possible emergence that lies within social media, presence services and livestreams.