Billow

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Billow consists of a series of six sculptural LED screens that depict abstract animations created with real-time data from Google platforms, including Search interests, Knowledge Graph topics, trending YouTube videos and Google News articles compiled from hundreds of newspapers and publications.
Colors within the animation are determined by how "hot" or popular a specific topic becomes; the more viral the search is online, the warmer the tones become. Popular queries from each day appear momentarily as overlaid text before dissolving into a smoky abstraction. Their lingering forms generate illusions of interlaced imagery.
The data-sphere is a driving force of society and the economy, despite its invisible nature. This lack of visibility can make it difficult to comprehend how information affects daily life. Billow attempts to expose the hidden threads of data networks.
This series continues the artists interest in the similitude between screens and textiles. Canogar plays with the idea of threads and knotted string by exposing electric data cables underneath the LED panels. Another defining element of the artist's recent work is the curving, architectural intersections of his sculptures. Rolling silhouettes of technological streams emulate the natural world of rivers, hills, and valleys. Canogar presents sculptures of the incorporeal electronic realm in the hopes of better understanding the rhythms of our digital times.
Flexible LED screen, computer, generative custom software, real-time data, metal structure