Why Dont You Make An Image Out Of Simple Data?

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We’re pleased to present the eighth episode in our bi-weekly online programme, ‘Why Don’t You’, inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Led by artists, each instalment will suggest a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from the screen.

For the eighth episode, Southend-based artist Damien Robinson presents ‘Why Don’t You Make An Image Out Of Simple Data?'. In this video, Damien shows us how we can record information from simple daily observations and turn them into something else, so that numbers can become colours, or letters can become patterns. In principle, Damien shows us how we can turn one way of looking at something into another way of seeing it. To follow on this episode all you will need is some paper and felt-tip pens. Video edited by Gabrielle Milanese. 

What you decide to keep a record of is up to you: it could be about how far you walk each day, or how many people walk past your window between 4 and 5pm. You could also link it the other Why Don't You projects – how much crochet time or seeds that you sprout. In this demonstration, Damien records the number of snails she's collected from her garden each day, along with what the weather was like when she collected them. Damien also shows us how to make a key or 'legend' which 'interprets' the data for you using different visual properties such as colours, shapes or sizes to represent different values of data. As a flexible approach, this method can be adapted to create all kinds of resulting images from the same data.

Damien Robinson is a Southend-based artist, who also works extensively in education and learning environments. Her practice developed through printmaking and new media experimentation, influenced by artist collectives such as MediaShed, and their open approach to technical and creative participation. She has developed works for traditional gallery spaces and unconventional environments - from wildlife reserves to fire training towers to maternity wards – and often collaborates with other artists. Repurposing and misusing processes and technologies (often through lack of access to learning mechanisms as a D/deaf artist), allows her to discover new methodologies and outcomes. She is part of the local artist collective “The Agency of Visible Womxn” and regularly works with FPG's learning and engagement programme. More recently, she has been locked into a war of attrition with Westcliff's slugs and snails.

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