"...artists working with data and using their own daily lives as research material."
>for example
Lucy Kimball's recent project Pindices (Personal Political Indices):
"... an interdisciplinary project for gallery and the web concerned with day to day political activity. How political have you been this week? How much of citizen? Pindices seeks to make individual political activity visible, but not in the ways typically measured by polling agencies or using the normal methods of social science. Rather than looking at political ideologies, institutions, groups or identities, in our project we start with the individual and their acts, and invite participants to make public a reckoning of their everyday political or citizenship activity by creating their own personal political indices."
see Pindices' guide \ definitions
see http://www.daytodaydata.com/history.html
for more information about Data Art & Artists.
~An e-mail friend remembers: "...a guy from Washington state...about 10 years ago was an "artist" and didn't even know it. He was the one who catalogued every 5 minutes of his life, e.g., 7:20 a.m., passed a large, firm stool, used 5 sheets of toilet paper."
[Cieciel] Imagine the (accidental) data art that home computers are helping people create! And in the near future when sensor networks go on-line??!!
Posted by Cieciel at September 1, 2005 01:19 AM