Susan Dell × ViaSat −6.0% × Burnham Brexit
JAEV, Content, 12 October 2026
On 12 October 2026, the Wikipedia article on Susan Dell was read 72,616 times, 9,077 times more than a week earlier. ViaSat fell 6.0 % on the Nasdaq. On Bluesky, "Burnham on Brexit interference" was among the trending topics. This work takes its title from them. Its image is made from this text.
The day's attention
The work was made on 13 October 2026 from three measures of attention. The Wikipedia figures are for 12 October 2026; the Bluesky topic was trending when the work was made.
Wikipedia: Susan Dell
On 12 October, the English Wikipedia article on Susan Dell, described by Wikipedia as “American philanthropist”, was read 72,616 times, the 31st most read article on English Wikipedia that day. A week earlier it was read 8 times. Over the last thirty days its readership peaked on 10 October, with 118,757 readers. The article exists in 1 language editions of Wikipedia.
Nasdaq: ViaSat
ViaSat (VSAT) fell 6.0 % on 12 October, from $72.01 to $67.66 a share. Among Nasdaq-listed companies worth more than five billion dollars, it was the largest move of the day. 2,089,329 shares changed hands, and the company is valued at about $9.9 billion.
Bluesky: Burnham on Brexit interference
"Burnham on Brexit interference" was among the trending topics on Bluesky when the work was made, in the category politics, with 2,731 posts, trending since 11 October, 09:44 UTC. Andy Burnham comments on claims of Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
The work
The text at the top of this page was turned into a fingerprint, the SHA-256 hash below. The hash chose one possibility in each part of the work:
| Composition | waves |
| Shape | half |
| Edge | smooth |
| Colours | mono |
| Movement | roll |
| Symmetry | mirror |
| Layers | 1 layer |
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Sources: Wikipedia and Wikimedia pageviews; Nasdaq; Bluesky trending topics.
How the works are made
Every morning the gallery's server collects three measures of attention from the previous day: the Wikipedia article whose readership rose the most, the share on the Nasdaq that moved the most, and a topic trending on Bluesky. Their names become the title of the day's work. A short text records the numbers behind them.
The image is made from that text and nothing else. The text is turned into a fingerprint, a long number that changes completely if a single character changes. The number makes one choice in each of seven parts of the work: composition, shape, edge, colours, movement, symmetry and layers. The same text always gives the same work.
Nobody chooses the topics. A wedding, a share price, a film, an election or a death can become a title; the system treats them all the same, as the attention economy does. The title is chosen for attention. The image says nothing about its subject. It is an honest trace of a day's attention, but not an explanation of it.
The titles are written to be found by search engines, because being found is what they are about.