Rosetta
April 2008
New York City
Data Visualization
Rosetta is a code project seeking to make order of graffiti inscriptions. The project interprets graffiti into a data visualization that uses common typography to lend insight to the literal meaning of the markings. These words are then reintroduced to the setting through wheat pasting to play wih the original graffiti tags.
By "coding" the tags it was possible to reevaluate the words used by writers and find nuances, hierarchy, and if anything, very strange poetry.
This work mirrors Evan Roth's Graffiti Taxonomy except instead of making a comparative analysis of different hand styles it shows spatial hierarchy in a legible and translated format. The biproduct is quite literally info architecture.
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