Memorials to Time Well Spent (2005)
3D Printed Forms, Inkjet Prints

Three 3D prints reminiscent of impossible sex toys, along with three flat representations of the same forms printed on photography paper.

The forms in were developed by analyzing online pornography viewing habits. Custom software was written to sniff Web traffic, sorting packets by destination IP address, time, and source IP address or domain. Domain names and IP addresses were checked by hand for pornographic content with non-pornographic sites culled from the sorted data.

An application was then written to model the data. Time was represented by the vertical axis, with each model symbolizing a single day. Individual bands generally represented time spent on a single site (although in some cases rapid clicking through many sites resulted in band overlap): the thicker the band, the more time spent. The radius of an individual band was logarithmically determined by the amount of data downloaded from the corresponding site.

Quickie was so named because there was only a brief concentration of pornographic viewing over the course of one day. In Work Safe? it appeared as though large concentrations of pornographic Web viewing took place at the beginning and end of the day, bookending brief blips between 9 AM and 5 PM. Vacation represents a full day of pornographic Web viewing, with the form inverted manually as a reflection of the introverted nature of the activity.