Obiettivo

Obiettivo is a datapoietic artwork: it uses large quantities of digital data to create an augmented sensibility about complex planetary phenomena. Obiettivo deals with world poverty: it constantly collects data about people in the world living in conditions of extreme poverty and interprets them using light. Obiettivo's light flashes according to how many people are currently entering or leaving poverty. Obiettivo will unstoppably continue to emit light until the number of people in extreme poverty will go under a certain threshold: only then the light will turn off, allowing us to rest.