Over the last couple of weeks, I have been conducting a scoping review of data in the home. It has … More
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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
Post-representational logics
Data have come to play an integral role in the areas of consumption, production, politics and security. However, with vast … More
Re-learning how to see – Notes on the work of Trevor Paglen
It is precisely at such limits – between knowing and not-knowing, between the perceptible and the undetectable secrecy and revelation, … More