Shannon Ha – Looking Outwards 07

‘Migration’ by Lisa Jevbratt is a data visualization image of the Internet. Each pixel represents 256 IP addresses and the different positions, size, color of the pixel blobs represents the amount of websites. This database of Websites was created by searching for Websites in the same IP addresses three times throughout 1999, 2001, 2004. The patterns in these images reveal  both the search process and information about the Internet and the Web. What I admire most about this piece of work is how it shows change over time in our ‘technology carbon footprint’ through the way the visual representations intensify which goes to show how dependent we have become on The Web. It is also very interesting how we can click into the blobs which would link and redirect you to the Website IP address, this way, the data visualized isn’t only presented on a surface level, but also lets us interact with it.