Cinema Redux processes the contents of a film to generate an 8 x 6-pixel image every second. Every row of the final composition represents a minute of the film, formed by 60 photograms. The result of this process is a digital imprint of every film, where the quantitative reading of each shows how the director’s style can be read in the rhythm of the editi...

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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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American neo-conceptualist Mark Lombardi is well-known for his pencil drawings which represent the connections between individuals in political conspiracies and cases of financial fraud. Each “narrative structures” consists of a network of lines and notations which are meant to convey a story, typically about a recent event of interest to the artist. The...

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The Internet Archive is a non-profit archive whose aim is to construct an Internet library where researchers, historians, students and the general public can freely access the historical collections that exist in digital format. Libraries have always existed to preserve and give access to society’s cultural artefacts that serve us as memory and device for...

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Statistical graphic that reflects the different variables of the disastrous Russian campaign of the Napoleonic Army, in the years 1812-1813. It ingeniously combines the map of the military campaign with the visual representation of the number of men who remained in Napoleon’s Army. Of the 422,000 men who began the invasion, only 10,000 returned alive. The...

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