Making Art-for Stock Market

Making Art-for Stock Market is an artwork that creates sound and a pen drawing through data processing based on the Korean stock index. Some could wonder, ‘Can stock index data be considered art?’ In collaboration with the media artist team, teamVOID, nabi E.I.Lab suggests an expansion in media, and potential for data and robotics to take part in creating ‘fine arts’.

The working process is as follows. First, KOSPI (Korea Composite Stock Price Index) and KOSDAQ (Korea Securities Dealers Automated Quotation), the key indexes of the Korean financial market are each received via API. According to the data received, the sound is created, using max seven patch, and at the same time, the robot arms create a drawing. The sound is modified based on the frequency and the sound range and transformed according to the signal and the stock price index drawing builds up as time passes, with the shape of rectangles being drawn changes according to the size of the data. When the sound and the drawing are completed, you can examine the stock index of the day.