New York Talk Exchange

Mechanical Turk

The Sheep Market

*Modern Times*

Ten Thousand Cents

First computer to sing — "Daisy Bell"

"House of Cards" 3D Viewer

The Johnny Cash Project

The Wilderness Downtown

Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the "Wilderness Downtown" video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human.

Aaron Koblin: Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data

Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data

Through 'Flight Patterns', 140,000 planes become a captivating dance, transforming mundane data into a mesmerizing narrative.

The Sheep Market project reveals the quirky intersection of human creativity and mechanical labor, one sheep drawing at a time.

The Wilderness Downtown' fuses music, memory, and Google Maps, crafting personalized journeys through the streets of our past.