Artists Statement

Locus is a news archive visualisation that maps Guardian News articles to places over time – a spatial & temporal mapping of events and media attention in the last decade. Locus is one of the most recent visualisations to come out of DataArt –a collaboration between BBC Learning and the Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media, at the University of Westminster. Tom Corby is the project Research Fellow and the deputy Director of CREAM. DataArt is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

• Gavin Baily is an artist and developer, and founder of TraceMedia. He has worked on arts, visualisation and research projects in various commercial and academic contexts. He studied Fine Art at Oxford University and Computer Science at UCL.
• Sarah Bagshaw is the designer at TraceMedia. Sarah has extensive experience as a designer of websites, interactives, games and application GUI’s. She studied Fine Art at UCL.
• Tom Corby is the deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Art and Media at the University of Westminster. His research explores how artists and designers can employ digital information as an expressive medium. He studied Fine Art at Middlesex University and has a PhD from Chelsea College of Art & Design.

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