Juliana Sato Yamashita is a new media artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Juliana’s work explores the combination of typography, architecture and interactivity. She has a bachelor's degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Sao Paulo, and a MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. Juliana continues to explore her interests in net art, games, and physical computing.

Contact Juliana Yamashita at info@bigpixel.org



Statement:

The intent of "Searchscapes" is to design a tridimensional map of Manhattan using existing data from the web. The objective is to compare representations of the city’s “physical spaces” and “information spaces”. Taking the metaphor very literally, a specific address is searched on Google (ex: “1 Broadway” + “New York, NY”). SUch a search will bring mostly results that correspond to this specific location. The total number of text results is parsed and then plotted on a map of the physical space. The height of the “building” on that location will correspond to the number of results found. More results will correspond to higher “information buildings”. This is an attempt to materialize information: to give it dimension, physicality. This project is an attempt to give “shape” to the data that we find on the Internet, but not “quantify”.

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