Jordan Shaw - Art + Technology ¯\_(ツ)

Pulses

Pulses reveals the invisible digital ecosystem that surrounds us daily. The work is an ongoing series of captured and documented digital traffic at various locations. The visualizations transform these signals into concentric rings whose movement, scale, and colours correspond to signal strength and location context. The colour palette derives from a photograph taken at the precise location moments before data collection began, anchoring the digital phenomena to their physical context. Like photography preserves visual moments, Pulses creates data portraits of specific places and times, archiving ephemeral digital traces that would otherwise remain unwitnessed. These traces—continuously broadcast by our personal devices without our active awareness—raise subtle questions about privacy in an age of ubiquitous connectivity. It invites viewers to reconsider the layered reality we inhabit—one where digital signals pulse constantly around us, whether observed or not, silently mapping our collective presence.