DENDROCHRONOLOGY OF UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION | 2018
Immigrants are central to the identity of the United States, the population of which has grown in number and diversity as a function of new arrivals from around the globe. The Dendrochronology of United States Immigration is a visualization project leveraging arboreal visual metaphors to explore the contribution of immigrants to the country’s population. Immigrants and native-born persons are represented and differentiated as cells in trees, with layered annual rings capturing patterns of population growth. These rings register, in their shape and color, certain environmental conditions. In order to mimic the natural process by which growth rings are formed (the science of which is called dendrochronology), this project devises a computational system that generates tree rings as if cells were data-units.
Collaborative work with Pedro M. Cruz, John Wihbey, and Avni Ghael (Northeastern University).
Exhibitions
2021 · Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
2020 · Seeing Numbers
Brickbottom Artists Association, Somerville, USA
2019 · Who We Are
Museum of the City of New York, New York, USA
2019 · III Trans-disciplinary & Trans-national Festival of Art & Science
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2018 · II Trans-disciplinary & Trans-national Festival of Art & Science
School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
2018 · Naturalizing Immigration
Northeastern Center for the Arts, Boston, USA
2018 · Mapping Worlds
Spaceus, Cambridge, USA
2018 · IEEE VIS 2018 Arts Program
Berlin, Germany
2018 · Presente Futuro. Design Para a Mudança
Museu do Design e da Moda, Lisbon, Portugal
Articles
2021 · Immigrant gnosis: hacer obra en los Estados Unidos
post(s)
2020 · Mapping immigration flow through tree rings
Allen Hillery
2018 · A new way of seeing 200 years of American immigration
Citylab
2018 · This stunning visualization proves America is a nation of immigrants
Fast Company
2018 · 200 years of U.S. immigration looks like the rings of a tree
National Geographic
2018 · Process of simulating tree rings for immigration in the U.S.
VISAP
Awards
2018 · Winner gold: Most Beautiful Visualization
The Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards
2018 · Winner gold: People, Language & Identity
The Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards







