Atlas of the Habitual
Tim Clark (US)
Personal narratives hidden in quantified data, 2010-2011
Atlas of the Habitual hyper-digitises an individual’s life to question what, if any, value can be attributed to the generation of personal data. Through the production of categorised maps ranging from the mundane to the momentous, the atlas depicts a complex self-portrait spanning an excess of 3,335 kilometers in one single small town over a 200 day period.
With the rise of both the quantified self movement and commercial location based services, companies are not only learning more about our personal lives, they are profiting off our desire to share and be connected. While they may have our raw location data, they may never fully be able to analyse the human narratives that hide in all of our personalised datasets. The atlas is an exploration into how this information can be made tangible for the individual while addressing the mammoth task of keeping up with constantly generating data.
About Tim
I’m an American designer who investigates the trajectories of our current technological advancements. Through a variety of media my work exists to instill inquiry in viewers about the forces behind how innovation is shaped. I’m currently part of the Design Interactions program at the Royal College of Art in London.