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 The Department of Unfortunate Statistics   
 

A book of text scores for data visualisers. 

Edition of 10 hand-typewritten and hand-bound postcard books, each containing 31 rhetorical instructions for graphs. As a whole, the book attempts to grapple with the cognitive dissonance, hypocrisies, and double binds of living in the current crises. 

Numbered edition (plus two artist proofs) typed on 100% recycled cardstock, bound with PVA, Japanese paper and bookcloth. No digital edition, no pdf, no citation metrics, no impact. 

The title is taken from Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel Forty Signs of Rain, with thanks. 

 

 


 

 

 

 


 

 

 

  

 

 

--------------------------------------------------2026
Geotechnics With Anthony
Occlusion

--------------------------------------------------2025
eta-Earth

--------------------------------------------------2024
Department of Unfortunate Statistics
Four Million Tonnes per Annum
Cancelled Topographies

--------------------------------------------------2023
Spectral Index

Petrified Media

--------------------------------------------------2022
Dark Current Collages
Horizon of Fulfillment

--------------------------------------------------2021
To Photograph A Rock
Pixel Mining

--------------------------------------------------2020
E-Waste Litmus Prints

--------------------------------------------------2019
RGB [Retinally Governed Behaviours]

--------------------------------------------------2018
Saturation Trails - Acid
- Laser
- X-Ray
Destruction of an Image Sensor

-------------------------------------------------2016
Constant Linear Velocity
Augenmusik
Methodology for a Synaesthetic Screen

-------------------------------------------------2015
Migration
Digital Audio Film

-------------------------------------------------2013
Solipsism Cinema
Archipelago

-------------------------------------------------2012
Recorded (on) Delivery
Five Introverted Machines

-------------------------------------------------2011
Binatone Galaxy

-------------------------------------------------2010
In Search of a Concrete Music

-------------------------------------------------2009
Works for Turntable

-------------------------------------------------2008
Three Piece
Air Guitar
Extended Piano

------------------------------------------------2007
Trespassing The Olympic Site
For Violin, Viola & Tape