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Spoon VS. Fork
Location: Swab Contemporary Art Fair. Barcelona.
Date: 03/06/13

This experiment would start with the subject having to choose between a spoon and a fork, the answer to this would determine the colour string the subject would use; red for spoon and white for fork. All string would start at one point and as they went along the board they would have to answer questions that would split them off and tell everyone apart.
What continent are you from?
What is your gender?
How old are you?
What is your employment status?
How tall are you?
Are you left or right handed?
How much do you weight?
As more people would answer these questions the board would fill up and create art from the data collected.

This data art project was produced and displayed in the Swab Contemporary Art Fair which is in Barcelona. The annual art fair started back in 2006 and is still going today. Not only was Swap open to 52 galleries in the world it also encouraged young artists, this meant students could showcase their work in a professional environment, which was very interesting to us as a group as young artists.

The company Domestic Data Streamers are responsible for the Spoon Vs. Fork project at the Swab Contemporary Art Fair back in 2013. The idea behind this project was to put real life graphics of people’s thoughts and turn it into art, referred to as data art. Domestic Data Streamers explained “We will generate a real time infographic that shows a range of human profiles from age, to origin and professional status.” This allowed the Domestic Data Streamers to find their audience as well as finding the Swab Contemporary Art Fair audience.

As a group we decided to choose this data art project because the look of it in data art form was appealing and therefore intrigued us to find out the reason behind the pattern as well as how they collected this information. This project inspired us because it comes from such a simple idea yet the creation of art is effective and simplistic in showing us the audience visiting the exhibition. As a group we thought that this project was relatable because we considered this as a project we could conduct ourselves on a smaller scale and with a similar data art production.

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