data art
Here's a Machine That Turns Twitter Data into Cocktails
With ‘Data Cocktail,’ Twitter words become the recipe for a mixed drink.
This Light Installation Tracks Solar Activity in Real Time
SolarWind uses a unique algorithm to turn data from the sun into a stunning light installation.
Personal Data Is Beautiful in this Graphic Designer’s Year-End Reports
One man's year in review in stunning charts and graphs.
Post-Human Particles Explode from a Data Glitch Matrix
The Dataists—Maggy Almao and Antoine Marroncles—give you a vision of the chaos inside the digital world.
CGI Sculptures Explore the Chaos of Colors and Shapes
The nine virtual sculptures that appear in Robert Seidel's 'vitreous' experimental short are like a Rorschach test on acid.
Software Turns Your Trackpad Gestures into Painterly Brushstrokes
Artist Ali Eslami has released an app that turns computer use into Pollock-esque images.
Data Sculpture Turns a San Francisco Building Into a Stunning Morphing Visual
Refik Anadol's 'Virtual Depictions' freezes city datasets into art.
Would You Trust Robots with Your Passport?
'Sensible Data' is a project by Martin Hertig that makes you a custom algorithmic passport—and leaks it, too.
See China's Air Pollution as Robotic Origami
Artist Jiayu Liu's latest installation turns complicated data into mesmerizing movement and light.
Inside 'Dear Data,' A Year-Long Experiment in Visualizing Daily Life
From New York to London and back, Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec send each other weekly drawings of everyday data.
Tweet-Activated LED Building Sheds Light on Homelessness in Toronto
Just by tweeting the hashtag #homelessness, you can change the color of a massive architecture.
Here's the Easiest Way to Find 'Waldo,' According to Science
Using algorithms, computer scientist Randal Olson proves that even storybook characters aren't safe from the all-seeing eye of Big Data.