Collisions of the Now.

The Orchestra of Data.

This dynamic artistic data visualisation interface connects in real-time the city in real time while investigating data manipulation across distributed technology networks. The artwork creates an aesthetic experience that facilitates a new understanding of the networked data space and discloses WiFi traffic as an electronic systems based artwork.

We inhabit a multi-layered informational landscape stacked with data systems and communication technologies. This space above the landscape is alive with data flows. The data landscape has become an eternal unbreakable bonded layer of control observing, calculating, and serving back the activity below. If you turn your phone on you trigger an event in the artwork. This becomes a participatory musical construct derived from the invisible agency of the (your) surroundings. This artwork reforms the WiFi data activity in range to create an orchestra of sounds.

We are implicitly related to the data structure and the wider network within the environment by our own mobility. Liquid flows of the binary world can be evidenced from numerous fixed invisible devices that are now everywhere. Therefore WiFi acts to integrate the body into the wider technological landscape. As the ‘body’ becomes invested inside the ‘data space’ by the devices we carry and connect to these wider stacked networks. Here the body is now complicit and enters into a dialectic with all of these other devices via beacons and other monitoring systems. The collision in this Eden identifies how technology has multiplied growing beyond boundaries. Ever since this first marriage of Adam and Eve went so terribly wrong, God has been working out his plan to present a perfected bride to the perfect groom.

Essentially the body in the data space is recodified into the lving landscape. The data captured by this complicit interaction is turned then used to play the singing voices as an orchestra of data. The voices you hear are all singing binary code (zero one zero) in a generative musical system.

Technical. Four rasberry Pi with Wifi scanners detect WIFI traffic from buses, nearby phones and wifi access point. The mac addresses, types of device and location all create an informational layer which is in conversation with the landscape and is turned into the orchestra.

Exhibition. Available for touring and exhibitions.