Data Soliloquies is a book about the extraordinary cultural fluidity of scientific data. A wide array of graphs, charts, computer models and other forms of visual advocacy have become inescapable fixtures of public science presentations, though they are often treated as if they were neutral 'found objects' rather than elaborate narrative constructions containing high levels of statistical uncertainty. Through a mix of essays and artworks, this witty and engaging book - the result of a collaboration between Richard Hamblyn and Martin John Callanan during their terms as writer and artist in residence at the UCL Environment Institute - examines the theatricality of scientific data display, while critiquing some of the poorly designed statistical wallpaper that surrounds so much public science debate.

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ISBN 978-0903305044 (January 2010)
Available for order from Amazon.co.uk or Slade Press,

Review on Furtherfield (Pau Waelder)
Extract on Ecological Urbanism

Chapter Of Exactitude in Science' reprinted in Future Climate Change, edited by Mark Maslin, Samuel Randalls, published 15th August 2011 by Routledge (978-0-415-56981-1)

Commissioned and published by UCL Environment Institute while Artist in Residence 2008-09