EVERY THING EVERY TIME
public art installation, 2017 -
EVERY THING EVERY TIME uses various data sets from sensors, timetables and schedules, it strips data from numeric values, location information and any data transmitting purpose and translates them into poetic narratives that give a glimpse into the ubiquity of technology in the urban space. The writing is displayed across a custom fabricated electromechanical split-flap screen. The work is a piece of real-time digital writing, which is drawing from the many ‘things’ and ‘events’ and changes of ‘status’ that are constantly happening in a city. What does data become without its informational value? And what happens to all the data that is collected from our ‘smart cities’?
A meditation on the data that passes through the fabric of the city each day, EVERY THING EVERY TIME questions not only the role data has in our lives, but the use and value it has as it is collected. Can we see the urban landscape differently through the technologies that make sense of it?
EVERY THING EVERY TIME was shown as part of the Qatar British Festival 2019 in the National Library in Doha
Every Thing Every Time as part of ‘You and Ai: Through the Algorithmic lens’ 2021 by Onassis Foundation
Photo © Stelios Tzetzias, Courtesy of Onassis Stegi
The second iteration of EVERY THING EVERY TIME was shown at the Great Exhibition of the North in Newcastle 2018
EVERY THING EVERY TIME was first commissioned by CityVerve in Manchester in 2017. This first iteration of the work showed four smaller scale a flip-dot displays that were installed in various parts of the city.
