Data Compression as Art
In the piece Tele-Present Water artist David Bowen uses real-time wave height and velocity data from NOAA buoy #46246 far off the coast of British Columbia to direct the movement of an articulated sculpture hung in an exhibition space.
The incredibly chaotic surface of the sea has been compressed into a simple grid and the essence of the ocean re-imagined.
A collection of random science ramblings on evolutionary ephemera
