Chris Drury

I realise this artist has been added before but thought this work was very different from the other.

This work is more concerned with a kind of mapping...after a visit to Antartica Drury 'mapped' or documented 'data' using echogram technology.

'The ice here is over 4 km. deep and the underlying Earth is hot, so a lake has formed. each line of biro represents over a hundred years in time and accumulation. Antarctica has been covered with ice for around 900,ooo years, which is about the time man has been on the Earth. An echogram, which is a radar image bounced through the ice from an aircraft and imaged in a computer. The image itself can be 20 m. or so long'. An interesting and visual use of data!!!

Murders

I went to an English seminar not so long ago and the topic was about the murders in Philadelphia. Talking of statistics this map dots all the places where murders have occured. If you click on the website and click the red dots it reads more statistics, time, date, weapon etc. Most of the dots reads.. Firearms!! In Philli, nicknamed "KILLADELPHIA" there were 406 murders in 2007! I might compare this to york. Im guessing york may have less than 10 a year? Lets find out!

Oli Laruelle - Invisible Journeys

"Invisible Journeys is my first try at data visualisation. I have seen a few wifi geographical mapping, but they looked a bit too technical to my taste. Here, i aimed at a semi abstract visualisation while keeping the ability to extract sense out of the graphics. Below is one of the visualisation showing 4 different journeys. Bigger to smaller rings : London / Vescemont / Belfort / Barcelona.
Each circular item represent the recording of wireless networks along one journey.
The time dimension starts reading from the right then goes clockwise along the main black thick line.
Each successful node recording influences the time line thickness and adds a “pin” onto it. Red pins represents non encrypted networks other networks are the smaller black ones.
More images of the ongoing process can be found on my flickr set"

http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/ff_dataart_1603

http://yesyesnono.co.uk/article/30/invisible-journeys

access public records and make a 'data-work'

Identify an 'institution' which holds public records or information pertinent to your developing ideas, work or potential setting. Negotiate access to this 'institution'. Think about libraries, archives, internet sources. Devise a strategy to shape your research and compile a body of information generate a range of data (e.g. geographical, economical, demographical, historical, social, political, cultural, etc). In your studio, submit this data material to some form of intervention/manipulation. Carefully document this investigation and the ideas that arise from it. Present this as an artwork-in-progress next time we meet.

NB Some organisations will need to be approached in advance of your visit and you should plan your activities accordingly. You should also consider a number of lines of enquiry in case some approaches are rejected or need more time to pursue.