Japanese Video Games and Comic Books

These two projects (entitled “Kingdom Hearts” and “One million manga pages”) each borrow massive amounts of content from a popular Japanese video game as well as a series of Japanese graphic novels, called manga. What they have in common are the way in which they gather, synthesize, and redistribute this widely available content. Divorced from their original source, these images are less translations of cultural phenomena and found objects organized to create interesting patterns and visualizations.