Data Heartbreak

Data on the consumption and generation of information come as no surprise: while every second sees 6,000 tweets, 740,741 WhatsApp messages sent and 694 Instagram posts published, new reports tell us that the human attention span gets shorter every year (at present it is 8 seconds).

We have more information than ever, information which is growing at an unprecedented pace, and we’ve lost our capacity for concentration, attention and analysis. This is the source of an anxiety that translates into apathy and inaction.

These ideas are set out in Data Heartbreak, an experience by the Domestic Data Streamers created specifically for the Llum BCN 2022 Festival, reflecting on the importance of data in an era of infoxication. This is an immersive piece where the digital content we generate is converted into the light of disinformation.