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I visited the V&A's Decode exhibition over the weekend which showcases digital interactive art. Decode did a good job of showing how code was becoming a tool in its own right for artists and designers, how technology allowed people to interact more fully (read: full of very excited children) with exhibits, and how dynamic visualisations could be generated from vast networks. The video for Radiohead's House of Cards was displayed on an interactive screen but others I hadn't seen before, like Troika's digital zoetrope which whizzed round displaying an incoherent babble of words, then suddenly clicked into focus showing snippets of a story: "stockbroker / 200k / belgravia / she left me" before changing speed again so that the words fell back into the babble. Putting the puritan hat of Edward Tufte on, I guess I'd say that a lot of the visualisations didn't always have bringing clarity to data as their first concern: when walking around lots of things made me think "that looks complicated", rather than "that helps me understand".