Distance and Common Desires is a series of prints created through analysis of submissions to the website Destinations. I filtered people’s responses to the questions “Where do you want to go?” and “Why do you want to go there?” to find clusters of similar desires. The three groups presented here are people traveling to go home, those who want to see their lovers, and those traveling for food.
Each print shows the distance between people and their desires, the paths they would follow to reach them, and the relative direction to their desired places. They present a macro view of travel within common narratives of desire.
I used cinder and the cairo vector-drawing library to sort and draw the storylines. To parse the data, I used a few python scripts.
Full Description
Distance and Common Desires is a series of prints created through analysis of submissions to the website Destinations. I filtered people’s responses to the questions “Where do you want to go?” and “Why do you want to go there?” to find clusters of similar desires. The three groups presented here are people traveling to go home, those who want to see their lovers, and those traveling for food.
Each print shows the distance between people and their desires, the paths they would follow to reach them, and the relative direction to their desired places. They present a macro view of travel within common narratives of desire.
I used cinder and the cairo vector-drawing library to sort and draw the storylines. To parse the data, I used a few python scripts.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2010
- Submitted to ArtBase: Tuesday May 4th, 2010
- Original Url: http://sansumbrella.com/works/2010/distance-and-common-desires/
- Permalink: http://sansumbrella.com/works/2010/distance-and-common-desires/
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Work Credits:
- David Wicks, creator
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