EVERY THING EVERY TIME v2.0

This is the second iteration of our collaboration with Naho Matsuda on her installation EVERY THING EVERY TIME.

We presented the work initially for the Great Exhibition of the North and were then commissioned to redesign the work as a touring piece for SXSW 2019.

This iteration was shown in Doha, Qatar, both at the Ajyal Film Festival and at the Qatar National Library as part of the British Council Summer Festival.

EVERY THING EVERY TIME uses various data sets from sensors, timetables and schedules, it strips data from numeric values, location information and any data transmitting purpose and translates them into poetic narratives that give a glimpse into the ubiquity of technology in the urban space. The writing is displayed across a custom fabricated electromechanical split-flap screen. The work is a piece of real-time digital writing, which is drawing from the many ‘things’ and ‘events’ and changes of ‘status’ that are constantly happening in a city. What does data become without its informational value? And what happens to all the data that is collected from our ‘smart cities’?

A meditation on the data that passes through the fabric of the city each day, EVERY THING EVERY TIME questions not only the role data has in our lives, but the use and value it has as it is collected. Can we see the urban landscape differently through the technologies that make sense of it?