Data Tapestry is a commissioned data-art work for the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Melbourne Now exhibition. The work creates a departure point for thinking about our contemporary city through ecological, demographic, and systems data sourced from the greater Melbourne region.
Working with a curatorial team, data researchers, and collaborating city organisations, we sourced a range of open datasets, and less accessible data, to present different themes of the city: for example 5 years of Melbourne traffic accidents, city trees, waterways, buildings etc. These were presented through a 4 HD projections and 4 channels of audio.
Artist statement about data visualisation
As an artform data visualisation enables patterns to emerge from vast amounts of data. This data echoes the physical world we live in and rendered through a combination of design, programming & digital technology, data visualisation allows us to experience our world in new ways. As a designer data visualisation is not confined to the statistical or the analytical, but is an opportunity to explore the poetics inherent in data – a form of data aesthetics. Similar to words in language, or notes in music, visual & sonic encoding gives shape to data, it poises questions, and expands knowledge, and lets us sense - and in turn make sense - of our physical and informational environments.
Information via http://www.oomcreative.com/project/oom-ngv-data-tapestry.html
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