Ghalya Alsanea – Looking Outwards – 05

“Computation is typically a prompt to the illusion of determinacy.”

Dana Cupkova

This topographical flow is color coded according to each line’s unique identifier in the software. This is part of a research project led by Dana Cupkove, a professor here at CMU in the School of Architecture. Making the underlying data an argument for visual exploration, Cupkova operates on the munerical structure of the image as an aesthetic device. I am inspired by how the layering of lines of varying tones work to hightlight the drawing’s analytical value, and its geographical accuracy, while making a new landscape visible.

In general, I love how her work is able to take landscape data and analyze and the way she portrays the data creates a new landscape that the viewer can experience in a different way.

Find more of her work here.

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