"Air Routes" is a series of work by artists Ben Langlands and Niki Bell. I first came across their animation- Air Routes of the World in the Diagrams exhibition in the Holden Gallery. There is also a collection of prints on the same theme.
(screen print- Air routes of Europe)
The works are generated from international flight plans, showing routes between air ports. They have cleverly used data to give an alternative view of the world; visualising daily activity that wouldn't otherwise be seen. The patterns created are interesting, dense clusters in regions where flights are more frequent, the lines then reaching out to farther flung places. I think the simple black on white and white on black makes them really striking, almost like constellations.
The idea of leaving a trail or trace of where we have been is something i'm interested in for my project.
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