Having recently read Peter Lindner’s (2020) article Molecular Politics, Wearables, and the Aretaic Shift in Biopolitical Governance, I was struck by the … More
Category: Project: Materialising Data
Researching invisible data – Notes on Neumayer, Rossi & Struthers (2021)
After a bit of a break over the Australian summer and then a busy start to 2021, I have finally … More
What does imagination have to do with materialising data?
While it might seem unusual to be writing about imagination and imaginaries as part of this project, there are a … More
Metaphors of data – it’s time to redefine how we talk about data
Metaphors are a short-hand way of understanding complex ideas and concepts; they involve experiencing one thing in terms of another. … More
(Re-)structuring Time Through Data Representations
Representations of data are always retrospective. Even if occurring in supposed ‘real time,’ real time occurred some time in the … More
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
new ways of understanding digital data 