Objects not data: a photography and illustration print experiment

Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. —Stewart Brand There is a tension inherent in the economic nature of data . Data can be endlessly copied. That’s its nature. This will drive down the value of data under pretty much every economic system that’s realistically available to us. That’s what the anthropomorphic “wants to be free” means. Data is now also our primary representation of most work of value. Designs, writing, images, and illustrations exist because we make them. Tha