Lisa Jevbratt is a computer programmer who used the idea combining programming data into art, which makes new visualization possible. In her data visualization, she includes sublime representations of Internet activity into her work called 1:1, data mapping. Basically, the programming system that she creates enables to map all the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses in the Internet. However, the tracking targets on every URL which every of them has IP address that consists of 4 numbers. In fact, data mapping can create as an art piece of its own style, which software carries the main part of this creating art. There is an important fact that visualization is contrasting with the idea of high ache of making art. I think that the piece visually looks very unique and it shrink all the possibilities of IP address into an statistic form which gives me a total new experience towards programming Art. Moreover, is the author trying to guide the audiences to the IP address or not? Most likely, he is not trying to guide the IP addresses, since there are too many of them and it is not possible to find exactly the one you want to reach. Most importantly, he is just giving a general idea of Internet IP address, which is to show the audiences that how the IP address are migrated. In short, this piece can be viewed just as a visual product, and looking at this piece as a conceptual art, which used program as art.
# posted by Jack @ 12:21 PM