#datavis2018

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My developer friend who helped with my coding for Project 2 showed me this video. It is a final project illustrating exactly what he was taught in a first year coding unit. Apparently, he received bad marks, but contested them by arguing that this is exactly what the tutorials had taught him to do and that the course expected a competency level higher than they actually facilitated. Good on him for sanding up for better quality education by highlighting the inadequacies of the course.

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Universal Symphony. Gillian Quirk, 2018

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Laser Testing!

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Generated Artist Statement from http://500letters.org/

Semi accurate, hilarious and absurd at the same time.

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(via https://open.spotify.com/album/4IrmlNwO8aXQlFghPYl01q?si=3tdRI9oJQ5ivEBt0QjMYJQ)

Joep Beving has influenced me immensely this year since discovering him in February. His haunting music connects me directly with my humanity.

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My favourite piece of music with a beautiful data visualisation

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Lionel Ritchie’s “Hello” as a Flow Diagram

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Lionel Ritchie’s “All Night Long” as a Graph. Made with Henri.

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Hans Haacke and Carsten Holler Panel Discussion at The New Museum in New York December 2017

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Week 9 Lecture Reflection

I saw a lecture in New York in December by Alfredo Jaar, who urged artists to use their art to leverage awareness and galvanise communities to stand up against the atrocities occurring in our world. I was inspired and motivated, and whilst I had no idea at the time how I could do such a thing with my practice, this lecture on Data and Power showed me a door way into that practice.

Its easy to feel helpless in the face of vast corporations and countries who seem to dictate our lives without any respect for them, but I am heartened by the small ‘fuck yous’ that some of these data artists have created. I would love to find a chink in a corrupt or manipulative market, corporation or government system and exploit it. I’m no hacker, but I am definitely a revolutionary.

I went to a lecture earlier in the year about Blockchain, and I am interested in exploring further how Blockchain can be used to bring an accountability to the art world, which i think is an illegal siphon for money and assets (at the highest end of the market anyway).  I still don’t know enough to be able to incorporate it into my art, or to use it in an art market context, but its percolating away in the back of my mind.

Ultimately, I think using Data to disrupt power structures is one of the noblest tools of Data Art, as this data is being used against you without your knowledge and consent anyway, and its your duty to reclaim it and fight back.

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Data Source option for Project 2

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Week 7 Lecture Reflection

Learning about the intersection between data and the body and how the technology interfaces between the two was definitely a highlight of the coursework for me. I have already read a bit about Stelarc through my installation practice and how he interfaces between performing and being performed, and questions barriers between real and virtual art.

I’ve had a strong interest in VR and AR and hope to use them in my art practice in either third year or honours, depending on whether or not I can get a scholarship to purchase the materials (preferably a HTC Vive).

Learning about the Arduinos and their capabilities has opened a whole new avenue for viewer participation that I am struggling to wrap my head around.