12/12/1862Carte pour l’année 1858 des émigrants du globe | Charles Joseph Minard
This map charts the numbers and destinations of emigrants from Europe, Africa,...
03/03/2007Prison Uniforms, from Running the Numbers | Chris Jordan
It depicts 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of American...
10/11/2008Exit | Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Installation that quantifies and shows the growth of the migration of the glob...
07/10/2011Visual Complexity | Manuel Lima
Over the course of its history, the discipline of information design has devel...
20/05/1308Ars Brevis | Ramon Llull
The Ars Brevis is a shortened version of the Ars, Ramon Llull’s magnum opus. ...
04/12/2013_BIG BANG DATA
_BIG BANG DATA is an exhibition about the ‘datafication’ of the world curate...
08/05/2014Visualizing the complexity| Interviews
Visualitzacions històriques a través de mapes gràfics La representació vis...
29/01/2012World Processor | Ingo Günther
World Processor is a project, begun in 1988, that consists of a series of ter...
07/09/1855On the mode of comunication of Cholera | John Snow
Physician John Snow is the protagonist of one of the most famous episodes of s...
04/02/1858Notes on Matters Affecting the British Army | Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, a pioneer of modern professional nursing, represented in...
04/10/1296Arbor Scientiae | Ramon Llull
Arbor scientiae is a compilation of 16 trees, the aim of which is to enable th...
Barcelona 9 May - 16 November 2014 | Madrid 12 March – 24 May 2015 | Buenos Aires 2 July – 28 November 2015
Visualising complexity
VISUALISING COMPLEXITY
Explaining the world with dataWith the birth of modern statistics, in the mid 19th century, as a discipline capable of explaining different social, scientific, and economic phenomena, the need emerged to forge a new language that would overcome the distance between the quantitative measurement of reality and our need to understand the world with narrations.
The practise of transforming numbers into images to tell a story has a long tradition in science and design, that spans from the figurative maps of the 19th century to today’s data visualisations. In the second half of the 20th century, artists from different spheres started to create an information aesthetic, in which data became an instrument for representation and subjective exploration.
