Ingrid Burrington is an artist who writes, makes maps, and tells jokes about places, politics, and the weird feelings people have about both. She’s the author of Networks of New York, an illustrated field guide to urban internet infrastructure, and has previously written for The Atlantic, The Nation, The Verge, and other outlets. Her work has previously been supported by Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, and Rhizome. She also runs the Data and Society speculative fiction reading group.
Ingrid Burrington

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The Atlantic"It turns out driving directly toward huge, looming storm clouds is a great rhetorical device to employ on a road trip to see cloud infrastructure—and also a great way to be faced with the cruel truth of your own mortality." D... Read on The AtlanticNovember 2015 -
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The Atlantic"Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet." Former fellow and current artist in residence at D&S, Ingrid... Read on The AtlanticNovember 2015 -
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The Atlantic“So what brings you to Atlanta?” the man at the Alamo rental-car desk asked my friend Sam. We responded perhaps more eagerly than necessary. “You know those markings you’ll see on the sidewalk that tell you where a gas main ... Read on The AtlanticAugust 2015 -
Marketplace.org"...we'll take a tour of the visible internet infrastructure in Lower Manhattan with Ingrid Burrington, a fellow at the Data & Society [Research] Institute." Ben Johnson, Marketplace Tech for Monday, July 20, 2015 Read on Marketplace.orgJuly 2015
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video
Data & SocietyD&S fellow Ingrid Burrington spoke at the 2015 Eyeo Festival: It Tends To Annihilate Distance – This is mostly a talk about making maps and staying human while living among killing machines. Topics covered may include rail... Read on Data & SocietyJune 2015 -
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The NationD&S artist in residence Ingrid Burrtington writes about the history of the term "predictive policing", the pressures on police forces that are driving them to embrace data-driven policing, and the many valid causes for conc... Read on The NationMay 2015 -
Book or Chapter
Data & SocietyD&S fellow Ingrid Burrington's popular field guide which, in the style of an Audubon Society bird book, enumerates the street markings and network devices located throughout NYC’s public spaces. An online field guide to ne... Read on Data & SocietyMay 2015 -
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OpenNews SourceBots are slippery and weird and not particularly monetizable–which is part of what makes them magic and what maybe puts them at risk. In this article D&S fellow Ingrid Burrington shares her thoughts on bots, GIFs, and ma... Read on OpenNews SourceApril 2015 -
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The Atlantic"The accelerated age buries technological origin stories beneath endless piles of timestamped data. When people lose sight of these origin stories, they do a disservice to our technologies and to ourselves." In this essay Data ... Read on The AtlanticMarch 2015 -
podcast
Data & Society"In this episode, I talk with [D&S fellow] Ingrid Burrington, a researcher and artist using technology and mapping to explore interesting, often unseen places. I met Ingrid at an Open Knowledge Festival 2014 fringe event in... Read on Data & SocietyOctober 2014