Media Arts and Technology

[ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ no title yet ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ ] I’ve always seen this period of time at MAT as an opportunity to make a pause -at least in the beginning- and redirect my efforts in a more conscious way. By pause I don’t mean stopping work at all, but the forging of a necessary recognition of one’s own cont...

Autobiographies This project explores the interest in autobiographies over the years. The code allows to sort this interest per higher year of activity and higher month of activity. Query: SELECT MONTH(cout), MONTH(cout), YEAR(cout), SUM(CASE WHEN title LIKE '%autobiography' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS a...

* When the chips are down >> THE PIECE The following dataviz explores the checked out items from the Seattle Public Library around two important recent events in US history: the Boston marathon bombings (2013) and the capture of Osama Bin Laden(2011). >> RE-ORDER After further revision of the projec...

"[...] When the chips are down" Description: Based on Hannah Arendt’s famous testimony ( […] on the Banality of Evil ), this visualization explores the following question: at times of hardship, where do the US citizens seek comfort/answers/explanations (throughout books)? Do they turn towards relig...

"[...] When the chips are down." After a tragedy occurs, where do we seek answers? Philosophy, science, religion, history? This brief study explores four major US-related incidents and its immediate reaction based on items checked out per topic . This same data is then compared to a more 'peaceful'...