Thursday 10 November 2011

Ellie Harrison...

Ellie Harrison Curated an exhibtion called Day To Day Data it 'exhibited newly commissioned work by twenty artists, encompassing a wide breadth of working practice and presenting an extensive survey of imaginative methods of data visualisation, through different media.' 
On the Artdoxa website there is video footage of Ellie Harrison's installation for Day To Day Data:

 

The website described this video/installation as a 'Film showing a photographic mock-up documenting the installation of the Daily Data Display Wall at Angel Row Gallery in Nottingham in 2005. The appearance of the Daily Data Display Wall changed every day of the exhibition according to data collected about my life the previous day and emailed to the gallery each morning. The Daily Data Logger character appeared on the monitor in the centre of the installation to explain to the audience which aspects of the data each of the 20 different objects represented.'
Harrison's dedication to collecting the data is what makes this installation so interesting, the detail of information is so elaborate that you get to learn a lot about it's author, even though it's tedious, meaningless information that could easily be forgotten in some ones day, it is what makes that person. Which is what makes this approach perfect for my project.

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