Earlier this year, the New York bitforms gallery presented Daniel Canogar’s “Small Data.” Composed of “nine video projection-mapped objects that are intimate in scale,” Canogar explored society’s relationship with its ever-growing technological advances. Canogar, following the philosophy that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, or in this case art, gathered old television remotes, CDs, keyboards, calculators, and cell phones and smashed the items into small pieces: making the objects truly become small data. The discarded electronics, which were individually placed on shelves under bright, colored lights, brought the viewer back to the intimate nature they once shared with these items. Therefore literally shining a light on what society
