How did we get here? Notes on Orit Halpern’s Beautiful Data (part 1)

Our contemporary media environments were not technically determined; aesthetic practices were central to the production of the condition of possibility … More

Data Smart Kids program in the news

As explained in an earlier blog post, the Materialising Data project was designed to extend upon findings from the Data … More

Materialising the implications of data: The Digital Defense Playbook

Recently, I’ve been reviewing critical data education programs paying particular attention to the ways data is materialized as an object … More

Adapting Dourish & Mazmanian’s conceptualisations of digital information to the materialising data project

In their 2011 article, Dourish and Mazmanian argue the information age marks a key shift from material objects to their … More

Keyword: MATERIALITY

Data is often thought of as immaterial – devoid of physical properties and without a tangible form. Imagined as immaterial, … More

Mimi Onuoha – The Library of Missing Datasets

“When you look into them, you start to realize that they almost universally intersect with the interests of the most … More

A note on keywords

Every word which I have included has at some time, in the course of the argument, virtually forced itself on … More

Keyword: DATA

Data are imagined and enunciated against the seamlessness of phenomena (Gitelman, 2013, p.2). Data is a word used across most … More

Post-representational logics

Data have come to play an integral role in the areas of consumption, production, politics and security. However, with vast … More