"Do more, more nonsensical, more crazy, more machines. Makes them abound with nonsense." -Sol LeWitt

Sonification of Income Inequality on the NYC Subway. Data-Driven DJ is a series of music experiments that combine data, algorithms, and borrowed sounds.

Learn more about Stakhanov, the Data God we presented at transmediale 2015 this year, themed "Capture All".
Stakhanov is a reflection on the roles which we, as human beings and society, are attribitued to data, information and algorithms.

The remarkable story of the underwater cables connecting the network of networks and the history of the NSA's efforts to tap them 

With visits you can browse your location histories and explore your trips and travels. Our unique map timeline visualization shows the places you have visited and how long you have stayed there. Add photos from Flickr to your visits and share your journey with your family and friends!

Visits works with geo-tagged Flickr albums, data from Openpaths and Google Location Histories. It runs locally in your browser, so no sensitive data is uploaded to our servers. When you share your history, it is up to you how much detail visits reveals and what remains private. Learn more...

Imagine a print distribution network with cloud-connected street vending/printer boxes. Overnight, algorithms API-shazam content for those boxes to print. Printed stuff piles up every night in those boxes, including cheap copies of a location-specific, regionally tuned catalog selling stuff for your normal, ordinary everyday life. This is TBD Catalog. It's an awkward attempt by an awkward business to attract more eyeballs and sell more stuff in a near future where the screen world has become so saturated and overrun that other mediums, like paper and street vending boxes, have become a natural spillover. It's a printed catalog you ritually pick up every morning to browse on your mostly boring, everyday ordinary driverless commute. You may even look forward to it, the way you look forward today to the free daily commuter news, or the Skymall catalog, or an entertaining bit of junk mail.

It's hard to draw a map without making someone angry. There are 32 countries that Google Maps won't draw borders around. While the so-called geo-highlighting feature—which Google uses to show a searched area's borders—is unaffected by the locale of the person looking at them, the borders drawn on Google's base map will look different depending on where...

20 Day Stranger is an iPhone app that reveals intimate, shared connections between two anonymous individuals. It's a mobile experience that exchanges one person's experience of the world with another's, while preserving anonymity on both sides.

For 20 days, you and a stranger will experience the world in your own way, together. You'll never know who it is or exactly where they are, but we hope it will reveal enough about someone to build your imagination of their life... and more broadly, the imagination of strangers everywhere.

You Are Here is a study of place. We use software to make sense of our cities and tell stories about how we live.

100 million rides and runs, 220 billion data points visualizing the best roads and trails worldwide.

 We Create Animated Street Art By Riding Tricycles With Projectors projecting animations in the streets of Rio de Janeiro and other cities around the world. We are a duo artist, Ygor Marotta and Ceci Soloaga, we have 2 tricycles adapted with projector, batteries, speaker and computer to project our animations.

"moDernisT" was created by salvaging the sounds lost to mp3 compression from the song "Tom's Diner", famously used as one of the main controls in the listening tests to develop the MP3 encoding algorithm.

Here we find the form of the song intact, but the details are just remnants of the original. Similarly, the video contains only material which was left behind during mp4 video compression.

Tracking the Rise of Globalization through International Phone Calls.
In this "index of global connectedness," 7 of the 10 largest international call routes initiate from the U.S.

Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs

From the GPS that give us directions to the drones that drop bombs, the digital shapes our culture at every level. So why is digital art still a sideshow? As a groundbreaking new exhibition opens, James Bridle looks at pioneering works from the first arcade games to films made fully in CGI – and argues that it's high time we took it seriously

"What is it about my data that suggests I might be a good fit for an anorexia study?" That's the question my friend Jean asked me after she saw this targeted advertisement on he...

Personal space can be a rare thing in overpopulated contemporary cities. Metro systems in cities like London, Tokyo and Hong Kong can be so overcrowded that you're forced to share that space with strangers. That's why Hong Kong-based artist Kathleen McDermott created a dress that automatically expands when someone gets too close.