Data Art

Google Maps incorporates data from smartphones to estimate traffic in any given location.…

Flow Fields, a generative art tool by Michael Freeman, lets you adjust various…

Satellite Studio made a map thing that generates haikus based on OpenStreetMap data…

Robert Bosch likes to use the Traveling Salesman Problem to draw famous portraits…

Overview is an ongoing project that uses a zoomed out view for a…

In 2008, the World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign that used pixelation to…

Thomas Lin Pedersen has been sharing his generative art pieces as of late:…

GPX Jewelry by Rachel Binx lets you turn your GPS traces into jewelry.…

Seung Lee collected sleep data for his son’s first year. Then he knitted…

Sonja Kuijpers used abstract imagery to represent some sobering numbers:
You might be…

Christine Sun Kim, a deaf artist known for her work visualizing and creating…

Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta used sensors, LED lights, and timers to display…

Leslie Roberts uses paint to encode text as colors and geometry:
My paintings…

Kjetil Golid made an interactive that lets you generate a noise field using…

Sarah Weber posted a picture of a scarf that her mom knit to…

Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not…

Michelle Chandra uses street data as a base for solvable mazes:
I draw…

The Earth Puzzle by generative design studio Nervous System has no defined borders.…