VISUALIZING DATA

Cross-digital techniques
Variable formats & sizes

2015—2025

VISUALIZING DATA is an expansive artistic research project exploring the aesthetic potential of data in a technocultural world. Initiated in 2015 and continuing to evolve, the series examines how algorithmic processes, once the domain of scientific abstraction, can be repurposed into emotionally resonant, artistically autonomous forms. Rooted in Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic philosophy, the project asserts that genuine art resists instrumentalization. In an era where data is mined, monetized, and rendered functional, these works challenge the dominance of utility by exposing the poetic possibilities of quantified reality. Here, data is not interpreted to explain—it is reconfigured to express. Through algorithmic methods, machine-coded aesthetics, and hybrid visual systems, the series explores: the dialectic between order and chaos, perceptual ambiguity, and autonomous expression. Visual structures emerge from raw patterns, only to dissolve into unpredictable abstractions, and images straddle clarity and incompletion, encouraging the viewer to confront their interpretive frameworks. Each artwork avoids illustration, instead allowing data itself to become a visual utterance — free from didactic meaning.

VISUALIZING DATA proposes a rupture in conventional representation. Rather than depicting the external world, it reflects the internal logic of digital structures, aestheticizing the invisible architecture of contemporary life. In Adornian terms, the work champions art’s ability to reveal truth through negation: resisting conformity, resisting clarity, and resisting the reduction of art to information. These visuals are neither explanatory nor decorative. They are critical gestures, forged at the boundary of technology and human imagination.