Data Art

Finding the beauty in numbers.

Transposing embroidery to music

In Soundweaving, Zsanett Szirmay used embroidery as a score to feed into a…

Fibonacci sculptures fake movement

John Edmark made some pretty things.…

Whale songs visualized

It’s been known for decades that the sounds that whales make show patterns…

One animated art piece per day, with D3.js

Data-Driven Documents, or D3.js, is a flexible JavaScript library that lets you draw…

Tim Cook Chernoff Face

This amused me. By artist Christo Allegra.…

Every episode of Friends season 1, played simultaneously

All ten seasons of Friends are currently available on Netflix, but watching shows…

Rapper travels and a robot arm

Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement. by Tahir Hemphill explores rappers’ geographic mentions in their…

Collection of physical visualizations

I’m pretty sure there’s a ton of untapped potential in data represented physically.…

Using baseball bats to display data

When a baseball player is hitting well, commentators will sometimes say that it…

Physical infographics

Photographer Marion Luttenberger used physical objects and people as her visual cues in…

Motion Exposure

Motion Exposure, a photography project by Stephen Orlando, captures movement patterns with light.…

Detecting your face

Sterling Crispin reverse engineered facial recognition algorithms and produced masks that only kind…

You, Me and My Computer

This talk that Lauren McCarthy gave at Eyeo is good. McCarthy, an artist…

Wireless networks translated to sound

Wi-fi is embedded in our everyday lives so much that we don’t pay…

Berlin wall of lighted balloons

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lightgrenze, translated…

Ballet dance traces

Electronic Traces, by Lesia Trubat, tracks ballet movements and allows dancers to see…

Geographic smell maps

Kate McLean, a PhD candidate in Information Experience Design at the Royal College…

Drones programmed for light painting in the sky

What do you get when you put LEDs on a system of drones…