Sticking Point
Tom Schofield
2010
Digital Print

Sticking Point is a data visualisation project realised as a live animation or a static print. The sections of the constitutions of seventy-five different countries describing rights, freedoms, duties and obligations of citizens were analysed to identify distinct or significant words. These words are arranged in a circular graph for each country and words which appear in more than one of these circles are connected by lines. Constitutions represent a way for nations to publicly define their ethical values. The project aims to promote consideration of both the differences and similarities between those values.



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Presented by the Banff New Media Institute
and the 10th International Symposium on Smart Graphics.