Not on display

Flight Patterns

Digital Art
2009 (made)
Artist/Maker
Aaron Koblin (artist)
Place of origin
USA (made)

digital files

Object details

Categories
Interiors
Household Objects
Shekou
Values of Design
Design Society
Object type
digital art
TitleFlight Patterns (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
software (RLM)
Digital File
Brief description
Flight Patterns, 2005 - 2009, Aaron Koblin
Physical description
digital files
Gallery label
(08/12/2009)
Koblin specialises in taking unreadable computational data and making visualisations with it. Flight Patterns is a record of aeroplane journeys across North America over a 24-hour period. He sourced data from the Federal Aviation Administration on 205,000 flights on 12 August 2008. Each one of the tiny colourful threads streaming across the wall represents hundreds of people, flights and cargo as they travel across the airspace of the United States.

Credit line
Courtesy of the artist
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1185-2012

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Record createdMay 11, 2012
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1247173/flight-patterns-digital-art-aaron-koblin/
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