“the web trend map is a yearly publication by iA Inc. It maps the 333 most influential web domains and the 111 most influential Internet people onto the Tokyo Metro map. [..] Twitter is located in Shibuya this year, as Shibuya is the spot with the biggest buzz.”
From Cultural Production to the Production of Space. “geographical information systems (GIS) have become a new lingua franca for collecting, collating, and representing data in fields as diverse as archaeology, biology, climatology, demography, epidemiology, and all the way to zoology. In many people’s minds, a newfound interest in geography has seized popular culture, the arts, and the academy.”
via The Brooklyn Rail, amazon
inidzes and fundament
by andreas nicolas fischer, 2008. fundament 7 “The data sculpture Fundament shows the allocation of the world’s gross domestic product in comparison to the worldwide derivatives volume.” indizes 1 “Poplar plywood, paint; 46 × 140 × 120 cm
Indizes is a data sculpture visualizing the stock market indices S & P 500, Dow Jones Industrial and NASDAQ in the year 2008 from january to november.”
