The Unemployed

2014
Source: 2014
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Description
The Unemployed is an interactive installation that visualizes worldwide unemployment, depicting the jobless as animated figures moving in an abstract representation of urban space. Viewers movements are tracked and their silhouettes are replaced by animated figures.

The Unemployed was presented at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, May 31 - September 6, 2014;
Disseney Hub Museum, Barcelona, June 21, 2011 - August 31, 2012 and at
Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA September 15 - November 5, 2009

Medium: Interactive installation / data visualization Processing applet, video camera, computer, data projector, cables and hardware
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • animated
    • installation-based
    • multi-user
    • real-time
  • genres
    • database art
    • installations
      • interactive installations
  • subjects
    • Art and Science
      • code
    • Arts and Visual Culture
      • representation
Technology & Material
Software
The Unemployed is an interactive installation / data visualization created using Processing. It requires a video camera, computer, data projector, misc cables and hardware. It was programmed by Jody Zellen with Rory Solomon and Jonathan Bobrow.
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