by Angela Guess
Leo Kent has posted a sixteen minute video called Invisible Airs, a mini documentary about understanding the data that surrounds us. Kent explains, “There is an unimaginable and incalculable amount of data in the world but in its essence it is invisible. Artist duo Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji, who call themselves YoHa, sought to translate this abstract mountain of knowledge into a concrete reality. Their inspired idea was to convert data into air pressure that would animate various objects.”
Kent quotes YoHa, saying, “Power, Governance and Data has been conducting a naked love dance on this island since before the Doomsday book, it’s rhythms have quickened of late, multiplied and become amplified through database machines. New abstractions that order and compare the world are spawning new technologies of power out of the orgiastic revelry of a bookkeeping gone mad.”
Watch the video here:
Invisible Airs from acacia films on Vimeo.
