A Prospect of the Sublime in Data Visualizations by Lisa Jevbratt

Jevbratt created a star map by collecting a number of IP addresses that are translated into colors. She started this poject in 1999 and updated it in 2001 and she is still adding to it. If you click on a certain color or IP address, it takes you to that specific address or website. She created the ping language to show how the internet and the internal functionality of the world wide web is working and how the information migrates through different IP addresses. Jevbratt is trying to communicate through the language of color and light. This language or map is not meant to guide the viewer to a certain place or time because it has so much information that they can't specify or limit. This map is meant to respresent the sublime and to make us ask ourselves the question "do we base the quality of the work on how relevant the information to us or the visuals and aesthetics are more important? This concept brings a lot of debate and contraversy where a lot of viewers think the starmapping approach of the sublime has no function and that it is completely tangible.

Links about topic:
http://jevbratt.com/
http://www.altx.com/mappingtransitions/jevbratt.html
http://jevbratt.com/projects.html
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/jevbratt/biography/