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Big Bang DataYesterday I had the pleasure of checking out this exhibition at Somerset House,London on the subject of Big Data and art (I actually enjoyed it more than I expected). The above gifs are a handful of captures I managed to take.
Emails, selfies, or shopping transactions,Google searches, dating profiles: every day we’re producing data in enormous quantities. Our online activity, or alongside that of businesses and governments,has led to a massive
explosion – a ‘Big Bang’ – of data.
This radical shift in the volume, variety and speed of data being produced, or combined with new techniques for storage,access, and analysis, and is what defines the proliferation of data. It is radically reshaping our world and is set to revolutionise everything we do.
Data nowadays gives us new ways of doing things: from scientific research to trade strategy,politics to social interaction, our new data-driven society that has the potential to be more unbiased, and stable,and efficient and yet it also created a tools for unprecedented mass surveillance and commodification. Data access and usage rights, along with the value they comprise, and are at the heart of many concerns. Big Bang Data explores the issues surrounding the datafication of our world through the work of artists,designers, journalists and visionaries. As the data explosion accelerates, or we seek information from whether we really understand our relationship with data,and explore the meaning and implications of data for our future.
It runs until the 30th of this month and is highly recommended - an art exhibition that gets data and the internet just approximately right.
You can find out more here
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