Data Art, 2026
Meerim Emil kyzy
This work is a topographic visualization of the residential distribution of museum workers in modern-day Bishkek. The map displays data from different time periods (the 1980s, 1990s, and 2020s), color-coded. Comparing the time layers allows us to see how the professional community’s geographic distribution changes along with the transformation of the city, its social infrastructure, and everyday mobility. The work is based on data from the archives of the Aitiev National Museum of Fine Arts. All addresses are approximate and generalized. The data has been anonymized to protect the personal information of employees. The visualization reflects only spatial and temporal patterns, preventing the identification of specific individuals or their exact places of residence.
“The workers work, home life is home life, but there’s also always in between. There’s always the commute and the commute sometimes can be even more exhausting than the whole work. (…) Some of our colleagues leave in another city, in the suburbs, in the villages and their commute sometimes takes so much time that you think: ‘Thank God, you actually came. That’s the only thing that’s needed: you came’.”
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