Jul 16, 2014
The Life and Death of Data
Data must be perceived as a collection of observations by individual participants. When mining archives do note all records bear the bias of the previous contributors. Yanni Loukissas, Principal at metaLAB and GSD lecturer at Harvard University showed us an elegant prototype storytelling tool merging Arnold Arboretums data stories into "a hybrid narrative, open for exploration".
More to follow covering "Archives As Instigator" workshops as part of "Artists Experiment," a Department of Education initiative at MOMA.