Dan Mills

Mills offers a meta-commentary on strategies of representation: His data visualizations present highly abstracted (notional, ideational) information, yet the most urgent aspect of his aesthetic strategy is the physical and material: Instead of the flat, formal, hyper-abstract grammar common to design aesthetics, Mills provides painterly (handmade, drawn, stenciled, collaged) marks.

—Laurie Hogin, “Haunted Data" essay, Dan Mills, Human Topographies Exhibition Guide, 2019-20

Poland, its shifting borders, and all its legendary, semi-legendary, and historic rulers, 6th century - 1795…

Contest—Africa (with nationalist colors, and colonial documents identifying extractable resources)

Record of Polish Borders and Legendary Rulers 1

Record of Polish Borders and Legendary Rulers 2

Record of Colonial England with Foreign Geographical Pronunciation Vocabulary

Contest—Caribbean Islands Montage (with nationalist colors, and with lines connecting islands to colonizing countries)

Contest—Pacific Islands Montage (with nationalist colors, and with lines connecting islands to colonizing countries)

Contest—Middle East, Fragmented (with nationalist colors)

Contest—Africa (with nationalist colors)

Contest—Africa and Surrounds (with nationalist colors and including the colonial era)

Contest—Africa (with nationalist colors)

Contest—India and Surrounds (with nationalist colors and including colonial incursions and excursions until 1876)

Contest—South America II (with nationalist colors)

Contest—Scandinavia (with nationalist colors including colonial incursions and excursions)

Contest—South Africa (with nationalist colors directed towards the countries people migrated from)

Contest—South America (with nationalist colors)

Contest—South America (with nationalist colors)

Contest—The Americas (with nationalist colors and including the colonial era)

Contest—Central America and Surrounds (with nationalist colors and including the colonial era)

Contest—Mexico, Central America, and Surrounds (with nationalist colors and including the colonial era)