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| project name: artist name: science engagements: science partners: project description: A Grand Unified Theory of Self consists of two components: a database and a system of data visualisation tools. The database component stores information entered by its users either over the web or in the installation. Users of the work can contribute to the database, or just analyse the data supplied by other users and myself. It consists of a number of seemingly obscure and unrelated personal indicators inspired by Lombroso. eg: index of well being, bank balance, number of coffees, consistency of shit, heart rate at moment of orgasm, duration of sleep, duration of television viewed and duration of online access. Although I enter my own personal data daily, the software allows for the fact that other users may not be as dedicated in recording their data. The database also contains a number of external indicators eg: weather in various cities, stock trading indexes, political approval rates, that are automatically harvested from the web. The data visualisation component of the work is designed to look like high-end scientific visualisation tools, using 2 and 3 dimensional imaging to reveal patterns and any underlying relationships in the data. exhibition history: links: |  |