a >100 words description:
Each departing plane composites the destination airport via satellite imagery. During arrival at the destination a composite layer is give opacity priority. We see a symbolic view of every departing planes arrival/landing elsewhere. The flights departure data [flight number, departure time, etc] is displayed across the bottom of the screen. Sheer number of planes in the air at any given moment necessitates their arrivals being the focus [composite would be very muddy otherwise].
Since there is a limited number of destinations [lots, but limited] the images are cached locally.

The intent here is to emphasize the planes -- as if they were an EXPORT from T01. And really, once they arrive at another airport, it is as though the last one is completely forgotten... almost amnesiac... or operating with only short term memory*
that arrival is in effect, the denouement, and much like a mystery novel, one is suspended... until the final resolution. Perhaps it's not really the journey, after all... maybe it is really the arrival we hunger for, after swollen limbs and slightly nasty snacks...

*[short TERMINAL memory?]

image is from google earth of vancouver airport...

technical aspects:

lots and lots of code, and images. HUGE thanks to James Bunker at flytecomm.com for sponsoring the project with a custom data feed.

short bio

K.D. Thornton works with technologies: mechanical, electronic, biological and any others she might find interesting. Generally, her work addresses social issues, conditions or problems (consumerism, pharmaceuticalism, sexism, mortality, denial, and taxonomies), often targeting these structures through humour and subversion.
She has a BFA (honours) from the University of Manitoba and an MFA (Art + Technology) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her sculptural and installation works have been exhibited in Europe, Canada and the United States, as well as interactive works online, since 1994.

general statement/musings regarding the work

It seems that i see the simultaneity of data to be best represented by layering and opacity. I suppose this is an attempt on my part to make the 3 dimensionality of data more represented by depth.

all sample images pulled from google, except for transitory image.