CUTIE-V
Let’s watch TV!
CUTIE-V (pronounced “cue TV”) is an electronic application which visualizes German television programming in a new, unusual way. Used to be a stand-alone application, is currently being remodeled into a snazzy web app.
1:1 pixel art excerpts from CUTIE-V
German language has a well-known term called “Fernsehlandschaft”, which roughly translates to “television landscape”. The term refers to all things related with TV, i.e. current trends, programming, celebreties, political discussions and the programming itself.
ARD, 24 July 2002. Olympic games!
“Television landscape” is a rather fuzzy term, and this is why we decided not to work on another online timetable but a fuzzy graphical representation of what’s happening on TV.
Mushrooms!
The various objects stand for general categories like movies, TV series, news broadcasts, and so forth. After a very short learning process, the user will be able to instinctively read the overall programming structure of a given TV station’s program at any day.
arte, 24 July 2002. High culture, baby!
In experiments, test users could clearly distinguish music television from German public TV at one glance. Thus, CUTIE-V may be seen not as a planning guide for TV watchers, but as a more “emotional” tool for finding out a stations’ general “tone” at any given date.
Technical Background
During research we discovered a set of hidden XML files on a server from german print magazine TV MOVIE. The files contain data and meta-data about the current TV program.
MTV, 24 July 2002. I was suprised by the strange landscape.
Our application will fetch this data, do some processing with it and render it into a beautiful, actual landscape with trees, rocks, rivers, little seas and some mushrooms (yes, really).
Credits
CUTIE-V is a term project from Berlin University of Arts (UdK). Concept, graphics and programming by Julia Guther and Jakob Lehr.
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