Antidatamining by RYBN collective (FR) and Marika Dermineur (FR) is both an artistic research, a socio-economic and a geopolitical investigation, as well as a real-time archaeology process focusing on the data flows which compose a part of our contemporary society. The goal of the project is to make visible, by using the Data Mining processing, several social and economic imbalance “phenomenas”. ADM seeks to identify and visualize these phenomenas; and tries to establish a global imbalance cartography.

The work is based exclusively on Internet recoverable data. Internet is then compared to a gigantic database, a “datawarehouse”. The type of recovered data are: geographical, ecological, social, economic, financial and geopolitical. Data are stored in a large database, then processed using DM genetic algorithms. This method allows to establish several meaningful – or particularly important – cross correlations.

The wide range of used datas, defines the project’s multiple investigation fields, including sociological, geopolitical and economic fields. The multiple extent of this project requires various multifolded skills from external contributors: artists, programmers, economists, journalists, cartographers… Meetings, exchanges and collective work, feed the project – confronting it to many several thinking systems – and allow to engage a transverse analysis, going beyond specialized fields.

At Pixelache 2008, March 13-16, 2008.