1. 1. Data Mobilities Louise Amoore Durham University louise.amoore@dur.ac.uk @AmooreLouise Visionbox 2014
2. 2. Mobility, data and perception The question is not how perception arises, but how is it limited [] to know how and why this image is chosen to form part of my perception, while an infinite number of other images remain excluded from it (Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, 1912: 34). The data of the senses, left to themselves, present to us the real movement as an undivided whole. The division is the work of our imagination to fix the moving images of our ordinary experiences, like the flash which illuminates a stormy landscape by night (1912: 248). Francis Galton, Composite Portraits, 1878.
3. 3. Flattening the border: MapReduce & predictive analytics Every call, tweet, e-mail, download, or purchase generates valuable data. Companies and governments are increasingly relying on Hadoop MapReduce to unlock the hidden value of this rapidly expanding data [] Sensor output, videos, log files, location data, genomics, behavioural data are just a few of the data sources driving Hadoop use (MapR for Apache Hadoop, 2011). J has been pre-paid to transport human cargo across the border. Earlier, he went to change pesos to US dollars. Yesterday he drove his truck to a local cantina for a drink. He didnt notice the Aero Vironment drone flying overhead, which caught several images of him and his truck. All of these events were captured by different systems. The challenge is detecting and correlating significant events from all the other images, transaction, and communications. The predictive perimeter alert is triggered by a pattern of events in an event stream processing system software that consumes streams of real-time data and converts them into actionable decision patterns (Predictive Perimeter 2014).
4. 4. Duration and mobilities Bani Abidi Security Barriers A-L (2008)
5. 5. Bani Abidi (2010) The Distance From Here
6. 6. Conclusions: data mobilities Perception transformed alongside new technological forms of spectacle, display, projection (Jonathan Crary, 1999, Suspensions of Perception).