Looking Outward – 07

The project I chose to look at for this week’s looking outwards was Aaron Koblin’s light project called “Flight Patterns”. The project facilitates a way to look at the air traffic over North America and visualize it into color and forms. I admire this project because the basis of looking at air traffic patterns seems mundane and maybe irrelevant, but Koblin was able to completely shift that to find underlying geometry, form, and depth of design. I suppose the algorithms generated for this piece was using air traffic control data and finding and system to systemize the information and plot into beautiful patterns and connections. I think the artist’s creative sensibilities lie in the determination for what colors respond to the algorithms to produce images that separate and combine information.

Link: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/index.html