(photo: Heather Willems)

An Experimental Data Visualization for Art's Birthday (collaboration with Daniel Jolliffe)

Saturday January 17th, 2004, 8PM- midnight (Visible from the OSU oval while facing Hopkins Hall)

"Matthew Lewis and Daniel Jolliffe present their contribution to the Art's Birthday celebration, an annual event to celebrate the presence of art in our lives first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou. Taking part in the Scrambled Bites data exchange project, we will work with data fed over the Internet from specially designed sculptures, devices and sensors made by artists in Australia, Japan, Canada and Austria. From Ohio, we will be sending to the other artists data representing activity in front of Hopkins, as well as the number and strength of GPS satellites in orbit over our location. This mass of data sources will be visualized in a video projection visible from the outside of Hopkins. Part visualization, part data modeling experiment, the resultant projection is a composite image of activity across the network and closer to home."

Scrambled Bites
Art's Birthday

Coordinated by the Vancouver-based Western Front artist centre