A series of Departure Boards will display commercial flight information for all departures happening live across the world at all international airports. The departing flights – for there are many - rapidly ascending the display.
Every year, 18 million flights carrying passengers occur around the world, that is 34 each minute. Departure of All shows these flights on a single unified airport style storey high departure board; an exaggerated form of departure boards found at airports and train stations. Using information sourced from across the Internet from international airports, each flight rapidly ascends the ordered display, as the flight departs its originating location.
This work represents the world’s complex connectivity and integration of once separate cultures, celebrating its diversity and interconnection. The speed of the information ascending the display gives visible and comprehendible access to consider the volume of flights humanity creates and what this means for us. It makes the largely invisible deluge of flights (and the scale of our world) visible on a human and personal scale, and reflects on many aspects of our modern world: the ease and volume of travel, migration, tourism; the interconnections of data which we amass; and the division of the world by the locations the flights depart from and to which they arrive.
Every year, 18 million flights carrying passengers occur around the world, that is 34 each minute. Departure of All shows these flights on a single unified airport style storey high departure board; an exaggerated form of departure boards found at airports and train stations. Using information sourced from across the Internet from international airports, each flight rapidly ascends the ordered display, as the flight departs its originating location.
This work represents the world’s complex connectivity and integration of once separate cultures, celebrating its diversity and interconnection. The speed of the information ascending the display gives visible and comprehendible access to consider the volume of flights humanity creates and what this means for us. It makes the largely invisible deluge of flights (and the scale of our world) visible on a human and personal scale, and reflects on many aspects of our modern world: the ease and volume of travel, migration, tourism; the interconnections of data which we amass; and the division of the world by the locations the flights depart from and to which they arrive.