David Allan Rueter

6’ x 6’
Work in Progress
Acrylic sheet, paint, lamp, aluminum frame, WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs data

Using data released by Wikileaks on October 22, 2010, this image depicts the locations of reports of deaths in Iraq. Between 2004 and 2009, 109,032 deaths were recorded in a total of 52,048 individual reports. I will use a CNC routing machine to etch these points into a layer of black paint on a large square transparent acrylic sheet, and will construct a lightbox using this panel.

A note on the data: this image was compiled using the more precise (but limited) data released by the Guardian. A popular “full” version of the war log data, which was distributed as a torrent, contains only rounded latitude/longitude numbers and is not suitable for detailed mapping.

Created using the R programming language.