DATA LANDSCAPES (SPARKLINES)
Year: 2025
Made with: Graphite, archival quality inks, and paper.
Featured in: Sparklines
Description: Data Landscapes are a series of seven, hand drafted data visualizations,
each containing six lines of data
between the years 2000 and 2024 (a period of caffeinated technological growth). With each line, you'll see that
the years 2002, 2018, 2019, and 2024 are labeled. These are years when a group I call Artist/Hackers built
coffee maker gaming computers. These Artist/Hackers span the years 2002 to 2024, with a curious 15-year gap in their
creation. Data landscapes investigate this gap, using publically available social data to understand something about a
private and subversive group.
Data Landscapes are drawn by hand using techniques that existed before computing tools were available like the t-square,
square, rulers, a lettering kit, and shape templates. With a computer, each of these pieces may take
20 minutes to create, but here they take between 20 - 30 hours. This is part of an
art exhibition called Sparklines where hand-drafted data visualizations
accompany a coffee maker computer.
