Aaron Koblin

Due to the fact that Aaron Koblin has inspired my idea with his Flight Patterns, I though that it is best to look further into his career. Aaron koblin is an artist who is well known in creating art using data and digital technologies.

His work with digital arts did not start until 2004 on his course Design Media Arts MFA program at UCLA when he was given a book on procedural graphics and generative art, which also lead him to processing. But processing is not the only programming language that he learned, he also knows ActionScript, Lingo, C++ and Max/MSP.Koblin works by not only using data but other techniques such as crowdsourcing to create his digital art and visualizations.

Crowdsourcing

Aaron Koblin work uses crowdsourcing to generate data, this is done by using ideas and getting other people to participate. The two pieces Ten Thousand Cents and The Sheep Market are created by using the Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labour tool. This is where people are given a tiny piece of a picture to replicate or a drawing of a object to do. But there is no knowledge of the overall task or outcome of what they were drawing.


Data Art

As well as being known for crowdsourcing Aaron Koblin also is known for his data art & visualisations. The best known one is Flight Patterns which is the visualisation of the data that is the paths of air traffic that fly over North America within a 24 hour time span.