Statement

While it is trivial that "everything is connected", the strucuture and nature of connected systems is not trivial. In this work I show visualizations built from medical records, international trade data, mobile phone communications, human mobility patterns and gene expression in nematodes. All of them are spin offs of figures produced for scientific publications.

I do not take my "art" very seriously, as I do it as a just for fun activity in which I recycle material that is leftover my academic work.

Art Exhibits/Exhibited Art/Published Art

The Evolution of Malaysian Exports
(Emergence, Complexity and Organization (forthcoming) 2008)

Places and Spaces
(Travelling museum exhibit [several different locations] 2008)

Showing schedule

Nature
(June 5th 2008) I took the cover picture at NYC Grand Central Station :-).

Journal's Webpage

Issues in Science and Technology
(Publication of the National Academy of Sciences, Spring 2008)

Magazine's Webpage

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Northeastern Creates
(Northeastern University, Boston 2007-2008)

Exhibit's webpage

Connections
(New York Hall of Science 2007, ARTC Hoboken NJ 2008)

Exhibit's Webpage

Media Coverage

Patterns reveal sci-tech ideas at Digital'07 art expo
Lisa Zyga, Physorg

Nature Biotechnology
(May 2007)

Journal's webpage

 

 

(a.k.a. just a repository of artwork)

 

2009

Rankings

This artwork recycles images created originally for macroeconomic complexity rankings that can be found in their original form in
Hidalgo and Haussman, PNAS (2009) and in Hidalgo, CID Working Paper 189.

 

2008

Trajectories

This artwork was done for Gonzalez MC,CA Hidalgo, A-L Barabasi Nature 2008. It shows the trajectories of thousands of users in the background and the
trajectory of an individual user highlighted on the foreground.

 

Privacy Issues

This artwork was done by using some leftover mobile phone networks in which nodes are people and links are phone calls.
The originalimages were created for Hidalgo, Rodriguez-Sickert, Physica A (2008)

Worms

The following artwork begin from the images published together with Dupuy D. in (2007) Nature Biotechnology.
The original images are chronograms summarizing the temporal and spatial expression patterns in c.elegans.

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2006 / 2007

Conception (Percolation)

Fall

NetArt

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