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