Case Study: 150 Media Stream visualizes algorithmic decision-making with CLEVER°FRANKE

150 Media Stream brings an Ant Colony visualization to a 150-foot LED screen with CLEVER°FRANKE

The customer, 150 Media Stream, is an international platform for media artists. They challenged CLEVER°FRANKE to create a digital art installation for a massive, uniquely shaped LED screen in Chicago. The goal was to visualize the complex, abstract process of an everyday algorithm in an engaging and visual way.

CLEVER°FRANKE designed and developed a custom digital installation featuring an Ant Colony Optimization algorithm. They created a scalable grid system to fit the screen's unique layout and used custom software to handle the high-resolution output. The final visualization, which showed ants finding the shortest routes between Chicago's parks, was successfully exhibited on the 150 Media Stream screen, making the invisible process of algorithmic decision-making visible to the public.

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