Selling Bad Data

The reception for my solo show “Bad Data”, featuring the Bad Data series is this Friday (July 24, 2015) at A Simple Collective.

Date: July 24th, 2015
Time: 7-9pm
Where: ASC Projects, 2830 20th Street (btw Bryant and York), Suite 105, San Francisco

The question I had, when pricing these works was how do you sell Bad Data? The material costs were relatively low. The labor time was high. And the data sets were (mostly) public.

We came up with this price list, subject to change.

///  Water-jet etched aluminum honeycomb:

18 Years of San Francisco Evictions, 2015 | 20 x 20 inches | $1,200
Data source: The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and the SF Rent Board

2015 AirBnB Listings in San Francisco, 2015 | 20 x 20 inches | $1,200
Data source: darkanddifficult.com

Worldwide Haunted Locations, 2015 | 24 x 12 inches | $650
Data source: Wikipedia

Worldwide UFO Sightings, 2015 | 24 x 12 inches | $650
Data source: National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC)

Missouri Abortion Alternatives, 2015 | 12 x 12 inches
Data source: data.gov (U.S. Government) | $150

Southern California Starbucks, 2015 | 12 x 8 inches | $80
Data source: https://github.com/ali-ce

U.S. Prisons, 2015 | 18 x 10 inches | $475
Data source: Prison Policy Initiative prisonpolicy.org (via Josh Begley’s GitHub page)

///  Water-jet etched aluminum honeycomb with anodization:

Albuquerque Meth Labs, 2015 | 18 x 12 inches | $475
Data source: http://www.metromapper.org

U.S. Mass Shootings (1982-2012), 2015 | 18 x 10 inches | $475
Data source: Mother Jones

Blacklisted IPs, 2015 | 20 x 8 ½  inches | $360
Data source: Suricata SSL Blacklist

Internet Data Breaches, 2015 | 20 x 8 ½ inches | $360
Data source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net