Data type: Geospatial  

black and white image of booklet called Daemons of the Shadow World

Daemons of the Shadow World

Giles Lane

Rates for the Job, Sam Meech, 2016. Order form and performative contractual exchange action 

Rates for the Job

Sam Meech

kinetic artwork of a circular wooden base and brass arches with a small brass seasaw with a weight

Allusive Protocols (prototypes)

Julie Freeman

Photo of The Promises Machione a wooden display with embedded screen

The Promises Machine

Rachel Jacobs

Circular blue, black and white inverted image of tree

Inverted Night Sky

Jeronimo Voss

The Clandestine Purse, Natasha Caruana, 2008

The Clandestine Purse

Natasha Caruana

Image of ghostly woman on black background (CIPHER artwork)

CIPHER

Katriona Beales

person in white wearing a sci-fi helmet with lots of protrusions

Quasar-2A

Field

Watching the Watchers, James Bridle, 2013. Multiple mounted colour prints

Watching the Watchers

James Bridle

Weather Gauge, Thomson & Craighead, 2009

Weather Gauge

Thomson & Craighead

20Hz, Semiconductor, 2011. HD + HD 3D single channel video. 05.00 minutes

20Hz

Semiconductor

abstract sculpture in blue and pale pink

Public Protection, Private Collection

Felicity Hammond

Mini Rugs and their Friends

Mini Rugs and their Friends

Riitta Oittinen

Voyager (Micromégas), Thomson & Craighead, 2013

Voyager (Micromégas)

Thomson & Craighead

photo of sensor hanging in a darl room with two screens

Measure for Measure for Measure

David Gauthier

Three Hundred and Sixty Seconds, Dan Hett, 2016. Algorithmically generated live coding production stills (from an ongoing series)

Three Hundred and Sixty Seconds

Dan Hett

Still Lifes and Oscillators 1, Ben Garrod, 2012. Paint

Still Lifes and Oscillators 1

Ben Garrod

Close up of lightbulbs from The Future artwork

The Future

Alicia Eggert and Safwat Saleem

Black and white abstract image

Shadows of the State

Lewis Bush

Gallery installation of multiple photos

The Longest and Darkest of Recollections

Liz Orton

image of black and white animation on a screen of women and a wire fence

There Are Worlds Out There They Never Told You About

Jackie Karuti

image of pylon-like communications tower inverted white out of red

http://s33.820180e151.184813.com.au

Evan Roth

Listening to Shetland Wool

Felicity Ford

Corruption, Thomson & Craighead, 2014

Corruption

Thomson & Craighead

Five 3D printed pale yellow shell-like objects

Lifestreams

Proboscis

Dystopian digital city landscape

Cover designs for William Gibson’s Neuromancer trilogy

Daniel Brown

image of screen and aerials in gallery

Open Space Observatory

Kei Kreutler and Libre Space Foundation

Transmission series

Transmission One and Transmission Two

Dan Hett

balck and white photo of sign in countryside landscape

50.080697, -5.694138

Evan Roth

{poem}.py

{poem}.py

Pip Thornton

Body 01000010011011110110010001111001, Stanza, 2012. Perspex, Arduino, electronic components, internet connection

Body 01000010011011110110010001111001

Stanza

Forkbomb, Alex McLean, 2001. Perl script computer code with paper output

Forkbomb

Alex McLean

Screen capture of multi-coloured digitally generated flowers

Flowers

Daniel Brown

Twenty Thousand Seconds, Dan Hett, 2016. Algorithmically generated live coding image film (from an ongoing series)

Twenty Thousand Seconds

Dan Hett

Listening to Shetland Wool, Felicity Ford, 2013. Interactive online aporee sound map

Sonic Pattern and the Textility of Code

Felicity Ford

Gallery photo of someone in a VR helmet viewing artwork

Substance – A whole history of hollows and reliefs

Phil Coy

Re-knitting step by step guide, Amy Twigger Holroyd, 2012. Digital prints on paper

Re-knitting step by step guide

Amy Twigger Holroyd

Six Years of Mondays, Thomson & Craighead, 2014

Six Years of Mondays

Thomson & Craighead

Illluminated acrylic sculpture of a red-lit person holding a book

The Reader

Stanza

Married Man, Natasha Caruana, 2008

Married Man

Natasha Caruana

Image of computer generated object in natural woodland

Shifting

Katriona Beales

The spectrum of re-knitting treatments, Amy Twigger Holroyd, 2012. Digital print on paper

The spectrum of re-knitting treatments

Amy Twigger Holroyd

eight ivory coloured soap bars with different words engraved, arranged in a grid in a brown holder

Constant Washing Machine

Blast Theory

Flipped Clock, Thomson & Craighead, 2008

Flipped Clock

Thomson & Craighead

Photo of multi story wooden tower

A Machine for Living

James Coupe

Image of an illuminated digital fountain dark blue on black background

Fountain

Katriona Beales

KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook, Felicity Ford, 2014. Crowd-funded publication

KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook

Felicity Ford

image of a screen with four chairs each with a ventriloquists half-masks hanging above each

Recruitment Goes Wrong

Thomson & Craighead

Punchcard Economy, Sam Meech, 2013. ODI: 3.5 x 0.5m knitted banner, FutureEverything: 5 x 3m knitted banner & knitting machines

Punchcard Economy

Sam Meech

The Doffing Misstress Takes a Stroll, David Littler, 2016. Participatory installation. Piano player, paper scores, materials for contribution

The Doffing Mistress Takes a Stroll

David Littler

Canal Observatory

AusBlau

Installation photo of red frame, number display and construction

53°32’.01N, 003°21’.29W, from the Sea

David Gauthier

Pillars of Hercules, James Brooks, 2014

Pillars of Hercules

James Brooks

Re-knitting 'tester' Jumper, Amy Twigger Holroyd, 2013. Hacked knitted garment

Re-knitting ‘tester’ jumper

Amy Twigger Holroyd

Metrography, Benedikt Groß & Bertrand Clerc, 2012. Print on aluminium

Metrography

Benedikt Groß and Bertrand Clerc

multicoloured cartoon collage with 3D rendered large golden hand

Unauthorised Copy

Antonio Roberts

Fairytale for Sale, Natasha Caruana, 2011

Fairytale for Sale

Natasha Caruana

Data as Culture - Art that uses data as a material

Allusive Protocols (prototypes) is a series of three kinetic data-driven artwork prototypes – AP: Space, AP: Land and AP: Sea. It was created as a thought-experiment during a residency at the Open Data Institute investigating power, diplomacy and ecology in the material internet: the vast networks of cables, satellites and data-centres that connect us. These materials create an infrastructure of information that is often (mis)perceived as ephemeral, and therefore not connected to real-world environmental impacts.

The piece speaks of fragility, echoing how this connectivity relies upon billions of tiny off/on switches continually flipping between two states. By subjecting analogue materials to real-world forces the artist asks us to consider the contradictions and imbalances inherent to these systems. The work refers to the implicit, often hidden powers that control them and to the implicit power that nature holds over us.

Within the work, data fluctuations drive an electrical current which alters the state of shape memory wires, held in anticipation by a brass balancing mechanism. The degree and speed of the transition is determined by data. These wires move organically and slowly, almost acting as physical line drawings. The form each small wire adopts refers to the specific data driving it: The zigzag shape of AP: Space is inspired by the signals transmitted to and from the satellites orbiting the Earth and their ground-based receivers. AP: Land’s irregular graph-like shape is inspired by the speed and size of large-scale data transfer. AP: Sea is an undulating shape. Responding to subsea cable data, it is inspired by the speed and distance of data travel.

Commissioned by Data as Culture at the Open Data Institute with support from Invisible Dust

The work was developed as part of the Power and Diplomacy in Critical Data Infrastructures project, click link for full report.