I wrote a while back about how the BBC’s White Season’s artistic treatment of some user generated data was an innovative step for the future media division Auntie-side. But I didn’t think that the web community’s most recent penchant - to visualise the galaxy of data we now swim in - would be taken so seriously by the programme makers at the BBC.
During an interstitial yesterday I caught a glimpse of this, the trailer for Britain From Above, which sounds like it could be the sequel to the much acclaimed Coast or a World War II biopic. But as it turns out, it’s more like a whodunnit of Britain’s digital footprints. Everywhere we travel, we secrete our tiny wake of 1s and 0s behind us - the phone calls we make, the GPS satellite navigation devices that we have sniffing our every step… I haven’t seen the actual programme yet as it airs next week, but it’s certainly one for my iPlayer viewing. The most important thing for me perhaps about it is that it is attempting to tell a story with that data; and that’s fundamentally what we need to do every time we attempt to make sense of that galaxy of bits.
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