_BIG BANG DATA is an exhibition about the ‘datafication’ of the world curated by José Luis de Vicente and Olga Subirós with ZZZINC activities management. In the lead up to the opening in May 2014, CCCB LAB offers a window into the production process through a series of articles in which the curators offer a preview of the principal strands of content. ...

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In 2011, information technology researchers Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden discovered that the iPhone stored information on its location history, without the user’s knowledge. James Bridle extracted the archive “consolidated.db”, which stored these data, from his telephone, and with the data he produced this book, which shows in two hundred and two maps...

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Openstreetmap is one of the most successful examples of a data infrastructure created with the contribution of individual people. It is a geographical information service for maps that offers an alternative to its commercial equivalents. In the last decade, over a million participants have contributed to this detailed map of the world used by numerous appl...

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