Dear Data

A collaborative project Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec from the exhibition Big Bang Data at Somerset House, London 2015 ...

Lupi:

Posavec:

Pixellating The War Casualties In Iraq + Fraunhofer Lines

From the exhibition Big Bang Data currently at Somerset House, London ...

Kamel Makhloufi's Function: Pixellating The War Casualties In Iraq:

James Bridle's Fraunhofer Lines 002:

We Need Us

Translating scientific data into animated abstract forms, Julie Freeman's We Need Us from the exhibition Big Bang Data currently at Somerset House, London:

World Processor + Zero Noon

From the exhibition Big Bang Data currently at Somerset House, London ...

Ingo Günther's World Processor:

Rafael Lozano Hemmer's Zero Noon:

data.tron

Back in Toronto now ...

What better way to highlight the end of the year with a continually failing internet service by Rogers?  The more I travel to different places of the world, the more I see how over-priced and substandard the near-monopolized internet and phone services in Canada are.  I am using the wifi at my gym to upload this post.

Although I have seen an even more immersive version of this three years ago in Montreal, Ryoji Ikeda's data.tron was still the main attraction for my visit to the exhibition Big Bang Data at Somerset House when I was in London earlier this week.  The sight and sound are still powerful as always.

Measuring Kraftwerk

I went to the contemporary graphic art fair Pick Me Up at Somerset House when I was in London in March.  Stefanie Posavec's project Measuring Kraftwerk caught my attention since Kraftwerk is my favourite band.  Posavec took the cassette tape of Kraftwerk's 1981 album Computer World and built a poster of a winding maze, which, when travelled, represents the exact length of tape needed to record the album.  I like Posavec's clever idea of making time and sound tangible.

Image courtesy of Stefanie Posavec