We've been told that we are in the midst of an "information revolution" and that "aggregate human knowledge" is doubling at an exponential rate. But what and where is all of this information? Much of it is simply our own conversations with each other. We gossip about each other, complain about popular culture, and argue about politics as we always have, except now we're using computers to do it. We are filling databases with terabytes of vernacular language. We generally consider the majority of this language to be noise because it's not relevant to whatever task may be at hand. We're letting the software we use frame our conception of the data. However, if we make new software we can begin to form new conceptions. If we conceive of these databases not only as information to be searched and sorted through, but as a vast new landscape of recorded human experience we can begin to render them as such. This software looks for conversational language on the web based on a search query and generates large-format social landscapes using a set of programmatic drawing assets.

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