{"id":2593,"date":"2017-04-26T14:04:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T13:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:05:21","slug":"data-soliloquies-solo-exhibition-at-argentea-gallery-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/2593","title":{"rendered":"Data Soliloquies, solo exhibition at Argentea Gallery, Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Data Soliloquies
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This exhibition comprises a trilogy of interconnected works that examines the role of technology and data and how it relates to the human condition in an age of hyper information. In a world dominated by digital media and the instant accessibility of information, his practice crosses the boundary between art and science to reveal the paradox of the promise of infinite knowledge and an absolute vision against its impossibility due to the transient nature of human perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Fundamental Units: The lowest denomination coin from each of the world\u2019s 166 active currencies are photographed to vast scale using an infinite focus, optical 3D microscope. Printed to a size of 1.2 x 1.2 meters from files with over 400 million pixels, the hyper-real level of detail, beyond normal vision, reveals the material construction and makeup of the coin together with the marks and traces from their circulation and use as tokens of exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Planetary Order: This is a 3D scale model of the Earth showing cloud cover from one single moment in time. Raw information from one second\u2019s worth of readings from all six cloud monitoring satellites overseen by NASA and ESA is transformed into a physical visualization of real-time scientific data that delicately outlines and profiles the clouds emerging across the sphere. The sphere, or globe, has no added color, only the sculpted whiteness of the raw material that throws a maze of faint shadows across the structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Text Trends: This looks at our perception of words and data when displayed in graphical form. Through animation, it uses Google data to explore the content generated by search queries and reduces this process to its essential elements: search terms versus frequency searched over time, presented in the form of a graph. The viewer watches the animation plot out the ebb and flow of search terms generated by internet users around the world. Pairs of words such as \u2018now and later\u2019 and \u2018summer and winter\u2019 play out matter-of-factly, with all the passion of a market index. Originally an animation, it has also been commissioned as a series of prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I Wanted to See All of the News From Today: collects everyday over 600 front covers of newspapers from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Argentea Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data Soliloquies, exhibition. Essay by Thierry Fournier<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data Soliloquies, exposition. Essai par Thierry Fournier<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening invite<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Argentea Gallery<\/a>
28 St Paul<\/a>‘s Square Birmingham B3 1RB<\/a>
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Data Soliloquies 11th May – 10th June 2017 This exhibition comprises a trilogy of interconnected works that examines the role of technology and data and how it relates to the human condition in an age of hyper information. In a world dominated by digital media and the instant accessibility of information, his practice crosses the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,50,51,44,1408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-a-planetary-order","category-data-soliloquies","category-text-trends","category-the-fundamental-units"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}