“Prismatic Audit of Melbourne Central”
Jason Maling and Torie Nimmervoll
16 Aug → 3 Sept 2010

The people you call when you feel blue but can still see red. In a world of threat levels, inconclusive data and faulty forecasting it is important to consider what colour you are. Is it a red day? Or are you feeling yellow? Your next-door neighbour is green – what does that mean, and will it clash with a fire drill?

As professionals committed to professional commitment Maling and Nimmervoll’s mission is to navigate the grey areas surrounding our decisions and interactions. Triangulation is a collaborative statistical process involving thousands of tiny triangles and two calculators. The auditors offer their services to communities like banks, hospitals, or shopping centres. They equip workers with kits containing a spectrum display device (flagpole) that is placed in a publically visible location. Throughout the audit period participants are requested to change the colour of their flag whenever they feel it is emotionally, politically, socially, environmentally or aesthetically appropriate.

Maling and Nimmervoll logged the changes on an hourly basis and translated the data into an evolving graphic installation of micro and macro proportions. Daily presentations feed back the community’s stories of prismatic defiance, solidarity, rivalry and emotional mood swings.

More information about Prismatic Auditing can be found at: http://www.prismaticaudit.com