Data Art

Finding the beauty in numbers.

857 empty desks on National Mall used to represent high school drop-outs

As part of their campaign to prioritize education and get presidential candidates talking…

Art using inlaid maps

Matthew Cusick uses maps as his brush and palette in a series of…

River flow simulation

In Newcastle, there’s a floating tide mill building on the River Tyne. The…

Tasty Tweets makes smoothies based on trending fruits

During a one-week visualization course at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, Kat…

Typewriter installation remembers killed journalists

Julian Koschwitz uses a typewriter linked to data from the Committee to Protect…

Meshu makes physical objects with your location

Location data typically stays within the realm of online maps and digital check-ins,…

Relational ornaments

Gundega Strautmane, a Latvian textile artist and designer, visualizes social and physical networks…

The Descriptive Camera

The unassuming little Descriptive Camera made me rethink data. This project by Matt…

Stop motion music video

Music visualization with stop motion board games. You can’t go wrong. [via @jcukier]…

Mad Men as thousands download via bittorrent

The BitTorrent protocol lets groups of people download parts of a single file…

Generative art portrays beauty in movement

Heading towards the 2012 Olympics in London, Quayola and Memo Aktenvia translate athletic…

Geographic news coverage visualized

Kitchen Budapest explores local news coverage in Hungary with sound and a bubbling…

Your personal networks visualized as microbiological cells in Biologic

Data exists in digital form, on our computers and spreadsheets, but the exciting…

Data in a human context

Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows…

Tracking the grizzly bear in emotional interactive documentary

In a blend of data and storytelling, Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison dig…

Cinemetrics creates a visual fingerprint for movies

As we saw with movie barcodes, each film has a uniqueness that can…

Bach Cello Suites visualized

As a resident at Eyebeam, Alexander Chen visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s…

Smiley installation shows the mood of a city

Project Stimmungsgasometer (say what?) is a giant smiley face that changes based on…