body evidence
11122009
A self-portrait posed as a forensic exploration of personal identity, and how body elements of hair and blood are derived and have roots in cultural, historical, and genetic footprints. References to many female artists who use manipulation of the body–Kiki Smith, Lorna Simpson, Adrian Piper–were considered. This project explored the metaphor of the hourglass to represent my passage of time as a living, breathing, functioning, human being. Filming of my hair and ink drops in water were done using a high speed camera at 420 fps.
POSTED IN Blog, projects | TAGS : forensic, high speed camera, self portrait
you sunk my GDP
11052009
Taking a ‘bad’ data visualization as the starting point for this Processing sketch, I re-visualized the military expenditures data as a familiar video game. The size of the explosion is directly proportional to the amount of money spent, in millions of dollars.
versus the original data set:
