Data art

Data Necklace

Sep 2012

A laser-cut, laser-etched acrylic necklace that displays your tweets as a data visualisation.

Cover of Data Necklace

Photograph: Stef Lewandowski

When
Sep 2012
Outcome
Picked by the judges as one of the pieces to be exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery the following month, and went on to appear on the BBC Technology homepage for the day.
Archived screenshot of Data Necklace
Archived screenshot. The site itself is gone; this is the evidence.

Inspired by my residency on Eigg and the experiments I’d done in data visualisation I’d been working on, I spent the two days of Digital Sizzle creating a series of data-driven necklace designs.

I booked some time with a laser-cutter and made six different pieces using plastic, silver and felt.

It was picked by the judges as one of the pieces to be exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery the following month, and went on to appear on the BBC Technology homepage for the day.

I continued to produce bespoke pieces using this method for people. 2 days.

datanecklace.com

Exhibited

Around the same time

Earlier in data art: Name in Lights. Later in data art: Cryptographics.