FCJ-067 Art Against Information: Case Studies in Data Practice. Mitchell Whitelaw, University of Canberra Canberra, Australia Introduction In digital, networked culture, we spend our lives engaged with data systems.
Although our experience is shaped by interfaces, friendly surfaces, we are inevitably aware of their functional undersides. The web is increasingly a set of interfaces to datasets. A World of Information in Data-driven Art – Not Your Grandma’s Dashboard. Wired Magazine recently did a feature on data-driven art.
The above image is Jason Salavon's work that shows U.S. population by county. The technically-minded readers might be thinking, "I don't get it. What am I seeing here? I don't even know what county has the greatest population. "