PROJECT TITLE
“Data Creatures”

DETAILS
Digital renders of procedurally generated forms.

SUPPORTED BY
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
The New School
A/D/O Brooklyn
Goldsmiths, University of London

What if computational processes were built on the perspective of a whale? Or the logics of an Inuit myth? Or in a way that allows for multiple, contradictory versions of an event to co-exist? The three forms above are outcomes of a series of computational experiments - processing open-source environmental data from the Arctic Ocean in unconventional ways.

Acting as provocations, they make the case for expanded, more inclusive, computational processes in the production of remote imagery - in the face of the outsized influence of extractive industries and nation states in the production of the region’s material record.