ITP Spring Show 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2-6pm & Monday, May 11, 5-9 pm
 

Jody Zellen

Movement Through Urban Space

Movement Through Urban Space is a data visualization depicting the number of unemployed as animated figures moving in an abstract representation of urban space.

http://www.urbanfragments.net

Classes
Spatial Media,The Nature of Code,Thesis


How do artists depict and map urban environments? Throughout history artists have used the most recent technologies available to create images of what surrounds them. I have always been interested in how the city can be represented, first through photographic images, later through websites and now through using code. Movement Through Urban Space is a multi-faceted project (prints/animations/installation) that uses Processing to create representations of urban space and to draw the figures who populate the city to the screen. The project is also a data visualization depicting the number of unemployed as animated figures moving in an abstract representation of urban space. Viewers can look at varying countries contrasting the changing numbers of jobless people in the world.