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# The Art of the Algorithm exhibition aims to make hidden systems viewable
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/art-algorithm-exhibition-aims-make-hidden-systems-viewable/
- Published: 2014-09-18T15:50:56.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-26T10:35:53.000Z
- Description: London Design Festival takes aim at understanding big data.
- Author: Jamin Warren
- Tags: News, Algorithm, big data, data visualization, design, London, London Design Festival, Signal Noise, The Art of the Algorithm, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Did you know that more than 90% of the world’s data [has been produced in the last three years](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522085217.htm?ref=killscreen.com)? Christian Rudder, author of the new book *[Dataclysm](http://dataclysm.org/?ref=killscreen.com)* and founder of dating site OkCupid calls this abstract and imperceptive mass “[an irresistible sociological opportunity](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/2710913?ref=killscreen.com)” and writes “You know the science is headed to undiscovered country when someone can hear your parents fighting in the click-click-click of a mouse.”

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sorting_medium.png)

But making sense of the scope of data is a completely different task and the London-based information design firm [Signal Noise](http://signal-noise.co.uk/?ref=killscreen.com) wants to help you understand what data and algorithms–the rules that dictate their behavior–actually looks like. [The Art of the Algorithm](http://artofthealgo.info/?ref=killscreen.com) goes live tomorrow at Studio 2 as part of the [London Design Festival](http://www.londondesignfestival.com/?ref=killscreen.com). It’s a curated selection of static, motion and interactive visualizations “which explain how algorithms work and reveal the hidden systems and processes that make the modern world tick.”

*String Theories* by Robert Wilson and Matthew Falla, information designer and partner at Signal Noise, respectively, asks you a series of questions and leaves your answers via a trail. [Carlo Zapponi](http://www.makinguse.com/?ref=killscreen.com)‘s [*Sorting*](http://sorting.at/?ref=killscreen.com) (right) shows how some of the most famous “[sorting algorithms](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting%5Falgorithm?ref=killscreen.com)” work and Chrisoph Thüer and Simon Haenggi, aka design collective [Visualpilots](http://visualpilots.com/?ref=killscreen.com), are debuting *A Thousand Times Me*, which is heavily influenced by prominent fractals like the [Mandelbrot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot%5Fset?ref=killscreen.com) set or [Koch Snowflake](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch%5Fsnowflake?ref=killscreen.com).

*You can see more about The Art of the Algorithm [here](http://artofthealgo.info/?ref=killscreen.com#info)*.