Data Diverge

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Set of 3 posters using custom type treatments and imagery.

Dimensions: 24” x 36”

Printed by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Copy, design, and editing by Stacy Huang
Typeset in PP Editorial New, pangrampangram.com

Ideation and Meaning

Inspired by the American Ghost Army in World War II, this triptych explores how deception can be used as a form of resistance against surveillance capitalism.

The project draws parallels between the Ghost Army’s use of fabricated visual and sonic information to misdirect enemy forces and contemporary strategies of data manipulation, in which individuals can intentionally distort or inflate the information collected about them.

The people depicted are sourced from screenshots of Google Maps inside of JFK and LaGuardia airport in New York City. Their figures become simultaneously recognizable as people, but reducible to data and numbers reflected through distortions and references to the UI of the systems that record them.

The subject of this triptych set utilizes imagery of military weapons, paraphernalia, and craft combined with colorful, dynamic type to reinforce the psychological tension between militarized identity and civilian life.

The subject of this triptych set utilizes imagery of military weapons, paraphernalia, and craft combined with colorful, dynamic type to reinforce the psychological tension between militarized identity and civilian life.

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