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Aaron Koblin is an artist, designer, and programmer specializing in data and digital technologies and using computational techniques to visualize and develop information networks. One of his most compelling works focuses on visualizing flight pattern networks, which render paths of air traffic over North America through varieties of color and form. The FAA data for the flight networks was parsed through Processing and visualized to show nodes and overlaps among highly complex flight patterns. Another Intriguing work of Koblin’s, uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to spread out the work of developing an image of the hundred dollar bill across thousands of individuals to where each individual was unaware of the overall task. The computational process works in service of exploring the idea of an advancing economy and distribution of labor. These highly visual and creative ways of visualizing information by Aaron Koblin challenge conceptions of informational graphics and have the potential to become generative models for innovative thinking and development.
