Artist 5

This is an image from the "Sensorium" project.  This seems to be a collaborative group based in Japan whose mission it is to "expand the potential of the internet as a circuit for sensing the living world."  This particular image is part of their "Breathing Earth" project which contemplates the Earth as more a living, interactive, relevant entity than we sometimes remember to be aware of.  This image portrays any and all seismic activity in most of the western hemisphere from March 14 1998 to March 27 1998.  The dates or on the bottom of the image.  The bubbles represent the actual incidents, and the sizes of the bubbles indicates severity of the incident.  The information was gathered from the International Database Center or IDC, and two days are represented within each second.  Under the definition that art is the tangible manifestation of a creative process, I don't know if this image would be considered art.  It seems to me to be more documentation than anything.  However, if one goes with the definition that art is something that provides inspiration for the receiver, the art is something that "takes you away from here", then I think this should count as art.  For it calls ones awareness to the power of the Earth and how small we really are.  And we are inspired by this project to become so aware, and therefore it is a creative human being that is inspiring us.  It is on purpose, and so is a work of art.