Data Art

Finding the beauty in numbers.

Data visualization as cultural phenomenon

In 1979, Joy Division released their album Unknown Pleasures, and the cover was…

Beauty in movement

For the Made by Humans exhibit at the Hyundai Vision Hall in South…

ReConstitution recreates debates through transcripts and language processing

ReConstitution 2012, a fun experiment by Sosolimited, processes transcripts from the presidential debates,…

Data sculpture shows emotional response to Olympics

During the Olympics, Studio NAND, Moritz Stefaner, and Drew Hemment tracked Twitter sentiment…

Make cool images with emergent algorithm

I’m not sure what I’d do with Ablaze.js, a JavaScript library by Patrick…

RGB Colorspace Atlas shows every shade in a cubic book

The 8-inch cube RGB Colorspace Atlas by artist Tauba Auerbach shows every color…

Long-exposure fireworks photos

Photographer David Johnson took long-exposure shots of fireworks. Fireworks already leave trails when…

Water Light Graffiti

Water Light Graffiti is an installation by Antonin Fourneau that lets you use…

Disney Research makes plants interactive

Botanicus Interacticus from Disney Research turns plants into multi-touch surfaces, simply by placing…

Paintings as pie charts

Expanding on his Vincent van Gogh pie charts, Arthur Buxton minimalized famous paintings…

Celebrating the joy of metering

Meters, by Berlin-based designers Patrick Kochlik and Monika Hoinkis, celebrates the joy of…

Short film imagines life with data and constant digital

In the what-happens-when-technology-takes-over-our-lives genre, Sight by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo, imagines a…

Olympic rings as data symbols

Artist Gustavo Sousa used the Olympic rings as data indicators for statistics like…

What planets would look like if they replaced our moon

Artist Brad Goodspeed imagined what the planets would look like if they were…

Worldwide mood around London 2012

No doubt there is going to be a lot of tweeting about the…

Charts describe love and relationships

Love is complicated. It twists, it turns, and sometimes it smacks you in…

Sonification of Stanley Cup goals

Artist Bard Edlund sonified the goals during the 2012 Stanley Cup. The goals…

Infographic essay on the meaning of life

Information video designer Marco Bagni abstracted the meaning of life in his short…