Information Visualization and the form of information.

Information visualization is par excellence a form of information-driven contemporary aesthetics. As a descipline, it seeks the composition of abstract forms of information to aggregate data into one representative media element.

The theme upon which rests the imersive age of information has been designated as " Informationalism" byManuel Castells, a sociologist who focuses on the social and economic implications of Internet. Manovich argues that the shift from modernist to informationalism is being accompagnied by a shift from form to information flow where the dynamicity associated with the flux of data and subsequently information is proven to be overwhealming.

In this context, information visualization tackles the bulk of "available" information on a granular level by taking a representative set distributed in an interval in time, focusing on specific sources or types of information. If everything around us (including us!) is becoming data-driven, than is Information Visualization yielding the proper tools to understand it? Or can it formulates the proper forms to encapsulate whirling fluxes of data and information collectively?

The question becomes a question of granularity. Information Visualization academics ask, sometimes insecurely, "where is the data? What type of Information?"... On the macro level, chaos rules the world of information, and no transient form does yet exist for shaping the types of information sources in a transitive manner. We tackle source by source and type by type, rarely relating them or merging them into one form.

Information Visualization successfully tackle the form of information on a granular scale, leaving gaps of "complex information" un-addressed