Treat motion as the primary language
Use movement as the core medium for expressing data behavior, rhythm, density, and transformation over time.
Dataism
Exploration of creative coding
Overview
Dataism was an experimental project exploring how data could be transformed into an expressive visual and spatial experience through motion, interaction, and installation-based presence.
Goals
Design for screen and physical space
The work had to function as a digital system and as a live exhibition experience.
Exploration
The point was to let data behave, give datasets motion, rhythm, and density, and let viewers change the outcome by interacting with the installations in real time.
Java and Processing library
The first part of the exhibition used code executed in Java with Processing, a graphical library for new media art.
TouchDesigner
The second part used TouchDesigner, a node-based visual programming environment for multimedia applications.
Exhibition
The exhibition took place in the Great Armory building of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk and consisted of three interactive installations. Controllers and sensors let viewers generate the artworks in real time, and the Data Cube merged a physical cube with projection mapping and a custom controller.
Data → Motion
The through-line was simple, don't illustrate data, move it. Every installation started from a dataset and ended as something you could change by walking up to it.
Outcome
Three installations ran live in the Great Armory, and people who had never read a dataset in their lives stood there changing one with their hands. That was the point. The project also settled something for my client work, motion is at its best when it carries meaning, not decoration, and that rule has followed me since.
