Go meta at this exhibition about digital data by generating even more data with your own Instagram photos
By Pamela Chow. Photos: ArtScience Museum & Pamela Chow
Imagine how many emails crowd your inbox every day. Now, multiply that by the number of people in the country, and then the world.
That's a mad amount of data, and we're not even counting the sheer volume of photographs, text messages, blog posts, songs and videos flying through the Internet every day. It's unimaginable - almost.
At Big Bang Data - sorry K-pop fans, it's got nothing to do with the boy band - this staggering amount of data is materialised into large-scale art installations that are beautiful, surprising and somewhat eccentric.
Weekender headed down for a preview, and here are the most noteworthy (and Instagram-worthy) works in the gallery.
6. Mountains of memories
Possibly the centrepiece of Big Bang Data, “24 Hrs in Photos” is a project by photographer Erik Kessels that features more than a million photographs collected from Flickr over 24 hours in 2011.
It shows the deluge of images on the Internet – on just one website, in just one day – giving the viewer an overwhelming view of what an explosion of data is really like.
Some pieces of photographs may come loose, so take extra care when walking through this exhibit. Diving into the pile of photographs is not advised.
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