Data is the new gold. Together we have amassed a staggering 100 Zettabytes of data, organised and stored largely in the cloud. An amount that will only continue to grow with the further digitization of our world.
In Datascapes, I delve deeply into the elusive nature of data concealed behind all the bits and bytes.
Data in essence is an abstract reflection of reality, a projection of our human rationality onto the natural chaos around us, an attempt to translate subjectivity into objectivity.
I reduce digital images of cloudscapes to a set of squares or rectangles, randomly selected from the original image, each representing one bit of data. By arranging and combining various image layers using digital compositing techniques, new spatial compositions emerge.
These constructs are visualisations of our human quest for intelligence to extract structured insights from data through systematic algorithmic processes to enlighten us and enable decisive action.
Datascapes is about the symbiotic relationship between data, human perception, and the construction of knowledge.
