About Outlier Detection
Outlier Detection is a computational artwork consisting of a 3D scan of a Victorian police truncheon, held in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM), in Exeter, UK. The 3D model is animated by a stream of live data. collection in Exeter, UK. The 3D model is animated by a stream of live data. Outlier Detection monitors and measures the frequency with which UK legislation is made on an hour-by-hour basis, in real time. The data is retrieved from www.legislation.gov.uk and the artwork looks for bills that are called Statutory Instruments, an increasingly controversial type of secondary legislation that is often not subject to a high degree of Parliamentary scrutiny.
The art work constantly seeks moments where the frequency of the bills is accelerated. When new laws are being passed at increasing rate.
If detected, the 3D model of the highly decorative hand-painted truncheon corresponds accordingly, and starts to crack and break apart. If it detects that the rate of legislation is continuing to escalate, it finally loses all visual coherence before completely disintegrating.
Outlier Detection contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
