Travelogue: A Recording of Minute Expressions, 2011
Travelogue: A Recording of Minute Expressions was commissioned for The World Is Everything That Is The Case exhibition, ISEA2011.
The project visualises the potential tourist trade in Istanbul.The ‘world’ in Travelogue: A Recording of Minute Expressions is seeded or initialised with statistical census data on tourism in Turkey, September 2010. Data from the ‘monthly number of arriving foreigner visitors’ provides the initial resources to populate the work. Other data, such as ‘$ spent per foreigner’ and ‘number of foreigners of nationality and group of age-gender’ populate other variables in the system, which are used to mathematically describe the drawing ‘agents’ (expressions).
The resultant visualisation captures the enfolded potential and intercultural traffic both in human 'migration' and in migrating ideas from cinema, film and artificial life with other techniques for visualising the human enterprise.