cosmolog
Tony Kemplen
Description: Day-to-Day Data -
Day-to-Day Data – ‘an exhibition of artists who collect, list, database and absurdly analyse the data of everyday life’, was Harrison’s first major curatorial project. It developed as a way of further exploring the ideas at the core of her practice, and as a way of bringing together a group of artists who shared similar interests. The project featured newly commissioned works by twenty artists and comprised a gallery-based exhibition touring to three UK venues, a publication and a website. Project website
The idea for Day-to-Day Data began to emerge towards the end of my postgraduate study at Goldsmiths College in 2003. I had developed an interest, within my own practice, in the documentation and analysis of small or insignificant events from within my own daily routine, creating and manipulating what I termed the ‘data of everyday life’.
I was reaching the end of a year-long durational project called the Daily Quantification Records ; where each day I collected data about my daily habits and bodily state. I was interested in the way the experience of a day could be quantified and abstractly represented through the information displayed.
cosmolog
Tony Kemplen