Make sure to check out the Experimenta Playground exhibition at the Performance Space at CarriageWorks, which is just a 10-15 minutes walk away from Sydney Uni.



The exhibition shows interactive artworks, video installations, short films and extreme artworks, including The Manual Input Station by Golan Levin & Zachary… Continue

Concept

For my data sculpture, I wanted to illustrate the environmental impact of clothing. I want to educate people on the impact clothing has on the environment, so that they realise that although clothes are often very cheap, they are valuable because they use large amounts of natural resources and impact on the lives of the farmer and developers.

Object

The object for this project was an old top that I don’t wear anymore.…

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Keyboards!

Characteristics

Key frequency - How often each letter of the alphabet is used in normal use of the keyboard

Speed of data creation - How fast it takes to create data using different mediums - handwriting, typing, conversational speech

Dell stock - The levels of Dell's stock in the past 12 months

Power consumption - How much power is used by the keyboard compared to the entire computer

RSI percentage -… Continue

OBJECT



The object I have chosen for this assignment is 'redheads' matches. The reason I chose this object was due to it being aesthetically pleasing and versatile, thus making it easier for me to use in my sculpture.





DATA TRENDS



1. 10 trees cut down every hour to make splints (match sticks); I have… Continue

The characteristics chosen, all fit the theme chosen, ‘The dangerous nature of thongs’. I thought that this would be an interesting topic to base my sculpture off, as I found may articles and sources, which have deemed thongs to be ‘dangerous’. And who would’ve thought. Being a thong wearer myself I found the information interesting and abit ‘funny’, because of the serious nature of the information, in comparison to a cheap, everyday clothing item… Continue