We love Venn diagrams/infographics like any normal person who’s intimidated by numbers and fond of easy comprehension, but the best visualization of data we’ve ever seen comes courtesy of Pedestrian friend Jonathan Zawada who has transformed random graph data (“Marijuana usage among year 12 students vs. CD and Vinyl record sales between 1975 and 2000” or “Value of land per square meter in Second Life vs. Value of land per square foot in Dubai between 2007 and 2009.“) into soothing hypnagogic landscapes. This new batch of work comes from Zawada’s first American solo show, Over Time.
Over Time is currently showing at PRISM in LA, it runs til February 12th.
Says PRISM: The exhibition focuses on large-scale landscape paintings whose topographies are derived from graph data. Zawada collected and compared a variety of data series that extrapolate information over time, such as “Marijuana usage among year 12 students vs. CD and Vinyl record sales between 1975 and 2000” or “Value of land per square meter in Second Life vs. Value of land per square foot in Dubai between 2007 and 2009.” The data is then manipulated through a 3D fractal program and the resulting environment becomes a virtual abstraction that mimics a mountainous landscape.
