Brief
Data Critters was apart of Barcelona’s first digital art exhibition: Digital Impact, an immersive experience which aimed at showcasing the creative force and possibilities behind digital art and design.
Following Domestic Data Streamer’s objective to help the world visualise the complexities of data and information, the drive behind this installation was to showcase the data that is created through moments of human interaction which take place online; when we meet, talk, share and connect. Just as humans leave behind a physical and permanent footprint, so do we in the digital world.
By visualising this online data of human connections into something physical, it allows us to understand each other.
Proposal
Over the course of 121 days, the installation mapped online interactions in real time from five of the most-used media platforms around the world.
Just as past civilisations have used scribes to document history, the data critters represent the possibilities of what a modern-day scribe could look like. Every time a stream of information from the digital universe was sent to them, they made a mark within the landscape - a mark of data, and a mark in history.
40,000 visitors experienced this ‘cartography of human emotions’. We wanted to inspire each of them to question what it means to record data, and the importance of information from the digital world.
Construction
This project was made in collaboration with Banzai Turba (Scenography) and Hamill Industries (Creative Engineering).
I had the privilege of spending a week at Hamil Industries to assist in the process of assembling the robotic frames which allowed for the Data Critters to move around their map.
Credits
Photography: Dani Verano, Eva Carasol
Videography: Dani Verano
