An installation based on Wiener Linien data

As part of a master's thesis, an installation has been created that abstracts the waiting times of Wiener Linien and visualizes them as art.

The waiting times for the subway should be represented using an abstract video, or animation. This should be displayed on a screen, preferably in a subway station. The shorter the waiting time is, the faster the animation moves.

Since there is currently no such installation in public space in Vienna, this would be a great opportunity to make information art accessible to everyone and to interpret the data where it is generated. This allows viewers to experience the waiting time in a completely different way.

This is a data-based art installation in public space. The installation should abstract data from Wiener Linien (Open Data Portal Wien) and visualize it anew. The focus of the data set should be on the waiting time between subways. We present people with almost everything in the form of data, in essence everything consists of data that is abstracted and packaged for human understanding. To make the rather complex reality in which we live accessible, people need visual metaphors. Information art allows us to venture into unknown territory and gain new insights. The DATATIME art installation is intended to create awareness that there is also an abstraction behind data. The abstraction can be represented in the form of texts, numbers or, as in the case of the work, in the form of a more abstract medium such as visual digital noise. A quote from the book "Aesthetics of the Digital" illustrates this thought process: "The reception of art is of particular importance in this respect, as the relationship between the observer and the work is newly defined by means of technical interfaces.