(2022)
Data Intersect Study is a series of spatial sonic and visual interventions to get in touch with the scale of big data. Using an old matrix printer for which I have written my own printer driver, I visualize 'found data'. The scale of the data leaks printed on a loud & slow printer can fill a room with just a fraction of what was found. Using algorithms to extract some meaning I look for aesthetics in noisy signals. I amplify this in livecoded (ascii)visuals and live patched modular sound design. I keep adding data sources as I find them and I keep evolving all aspects of the installation that is always tailor made to the space where it is on display creating a new experience for each expo. Below is an impression of the show at Faar in Antwerp.
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The expo opens with the intersection of the silkscreened expo poster containing all the names from people with a relationship status ‘single’ on facebook in Antwerp (Riso-print)
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It goes on into a dark space where matrix printed ascii art and eerie sounds fill the space. It is a tiny fraction of the actual found data filling the space.
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“No, I have no Facebook!” Left
“It’s Complicated” Right + Detail picture
“data communism” Mid (seen from the backside)
trilogy, printer ink on chain paper, found data (2022)
The resulting space is used for a performance with selfbuilt electronics and software using the found data. In this case facebook profile data and peoples AI conversational prompting data used to train AI models. A performance straight from my data lab
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Data intersections lab (Faar Deurne 2022)
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Modular data Lab (Ontsteking Gent 2021)