rgroves – LookingOutwards – 03

Reading Professor Levin’s article, I found the most interesting parametrically generated art to be the data based projects. It is interesting that the parameters that dictate how the art looks aesthetically are largely out of the artists control. Laurie Frick is a famous data artist, known for her large drawings that map where she walked every day over a long period of time.

Floating Data (2014-2015) is one entry in this body of work, a 2-story high installation of 60 25x15ft laser cut aluminum panels. She collected data by wearing a GPS tracker, making hand drawn maps, counting steps, noting which places where busy and which were empty, etc. All of the data is aggregated into this colossal transparent map.  While the data itself is mundane and represents routines that we all are familiar with, her fascination with these routines and obsessive documentation of them turn them into something beautiful.

http://www.lauriefrick.com/floating-data/80stjhcg96nxsmldyknon97zteq4kr