Data Art

Finding the beauty in numbers.

Tree blanket color-coded by local temperature

Data Art / blanket, crochet, physical, temperature

Speaking of data blankets, the knitting club in the area I live has…
Bathymetry blanket crochet

Data Art / bathymetry, crochet, ocean, physical

Jesse Gwinn, from NOAA, was at sea on a mapping expedition and to…
Music visualizer in the style of a Pong game

Data Art / constraints, music, optimization, Pong, Victor Tao

You know the classic game Pong with the paddles and ball that moves…
Visualizing poverty levels with a plant metaphor

Data Art / Kristin Baumann, poverty

To show poverty in the Pacific Region between age groups, gender, and location,…
Visualizing GitHub commit history in a 3-D virtual space

Data Art / 3-d, GitHub, Ren Yuan, sonification

Ren Yuan visualized the GitHub commit history for the PyTorch library. The virtual…
Currently, a light display that shows where your energy is from

Data Art / energy, light, Universal Everything

Currently is a prototype ambient display that shows where your energy comes from.…
Wind flows displayed with spinning paddles

Data Art / Joanie Lemercier, physical, wind

Joanie Lemercier used a grid of spinning paddles that turn with the wind.…
Conway’s Game of Hope

Data Art / Alexander Miller, fable, Game of Life

Alexander Miller wrote a “fable of emergence” that combines Conway’s Game of Life…
Conway’s Game of Life with a third dimension

Data Art / Alec Singh, Game of Life

Alec Singh added another dimension to Conway’s Game of Life for a pretty,…
A phone charger that only works when you recharge yourself

Data Art / Dries Depoorter, phones, vision

Recharge, an art installation by Dries Depoorter, uses a system that detects when…
Generative plants

Data Art / generative, Max Richter, plants

Generate your own plant with Max Richter’s interactive. Adjust leaf shape, density, and…
Scale model of the universe’s timeline

Data Art / Alex Gorosh, scale, time, Wylie Overstreet

To better understand the scale of time and feed your existential dread, Wylie…
Cyanotype to represent grief

Data Art / coronavirus, Reuters

Marking the third anniversary of the first Covid deaths in the United States,…
Conway’s Game of Life in infinite space

Data Art / Game of Life, infinite, saharan

Conway’s Game of Life is a zero-person game where cells in a grid…
Procedurally generated driving game

Data Art / driving, game, procedural

Sometimes you need to slow down and go on a drive with no…
Data visualization(-ish) in the style of famous artists

Data Art / AI, DALL-E, OpenAI

DALL-E is an AI system from OpenAI that creates images from text. You…
Empty school buses as a representation of student lives lost

Data Art / bus, guns, students

The NRA Children’s Museum from Change the Ref is a mile-long convoy of…
Generative sea creatures

Data Art / animals, generative art, Marcin Ignac

Cindermedusae by Marcin Ignac is “a generative encyclopedia of imaginary sea creatures.” I’m…

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