DATA
ART
How might we feel data?
Death by ICE (2021)
Since 2015, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reported over 70 deaths of immigrant detainees in their system of over 200 detention centers across the United States, and numbers continue to grow.
Death by ICE sonifies and visualizes data taken from the ICE database, to give a face and sound to the injustice occurring everyday. It was shown at the Speculative Futures: Art, AI and Digital Worldmaking Exhibition at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in November 2021.
Data is sonified by applying durations of sound to each bar of the graph
In this case, a sample of a given musical instrument plays throughout the duration of the detainees stay in ICE custody.
Death by Ice Exhibit
The final data sonification, video and accompanying poster were featured in the Hallie Ford Gallery at PNCA for the 2021 exhibition, Time In-Between: Temporal Matter(s)
Documentation
Initial Sketches for digital audio set-up. After digital composition, I used a video-screen-capture plug-in to follow the sound file as it played.
Data Viz Project: Anthropogenic Cacauphony
Whales an other marine life use sound to communicate across their underwater environment. But with the increase of commercial shipping, noise pollution has increased dramatically, directly impacting marine inhabitants caught along their trade routes.
How does underwater noise pollution affect ocean wildlife?
North Pacific Shipping Routes, NOAA Exploration Data Atlas
Hydrophones are used to record sound underwater. CSIRO
