Guiding Souls To The Underworld 2004 Data balls ......... Stanza. Online artwork gathers information from across the world and brings it all to these roving globes.

DATA BALLS

The increase of the technology infrastructure of the city means that it will more than ever be everywhere in our environment. Data mining will be part of the fabric of the landscape. Information will our guide and we will have to trust its intention.

Data Balls rove the city creating new metaphors relevant to the experience of the city. The ball is made from polymer display material which captures images from the city The images sent over networks. A city of data balls with retrievable narrative for new experiences of the city. Social sculptures contain information zones, banking data. Smart city narratives from huge libraries of online videos create stories with system accesses national data archives.

Everything is or will be tracked. cctv, car sensors, tracking inside our phones and id card movement tracking in the guise of anti- terror activity. The patterns we make, the forces we weave, are all being networked into retrievable data structures that can be re-imagined and sourced for information. These patterns all disclose new ways of seeing the world.

Made as part of Clarks Bursery residency at The Watershed In Bristol. Stanza 2004

Data Balls rove the city creating new metaphors relevant to the experience of the city. Stanza

Stanza display globe 2004 at the Watershed In Bristol