Presentations


Choi, C., Davis, J., Kaplan, A., Mckone, L., & Decker, J. (November 14, 2023). Making the Desert Island Discs Dataset: Data Visceralization and How We Don’t Know What We Know (MDIDD)DLF 2023 Forum. November 13-15, 2023, St. Louis, MO, USA. Retrieved from osf.io/qhg75

Choi, C., Davis, J., Decker, J., Kaplan, A., & McKone, L. (June, 2023). Exhibiting Making the Desert Island Discs Dataset: Data Visceralization and How We Don’t Know What We Know2023 Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) | Critical Making & Social Justice, June 8-10, 2023, Brooklyn, NY, USA. (See gallery images below)

Choi, C., Davis, J., Decker, J., Kaplan, A., & McKone, L. (March 3, 2023). Making the Desert Island Discs Dataset: Data Visceralization and How We Don’t Know What We Know. 2023 NEASIS&T Annual Conference: Information Science and Technology in Action, virtual. 

HASTAC Gallery

MDIDD installation at 2023 HASTAC held at Pratt Institute Brooklyn. Here is a virtual tour of the data visceralization experiments by Lubov McKone, Ava Kaplan, Jessika Davis, Carol Choi, and John Decker in the exhibition space.

The sound composition playing in the background was created by Carol Choi. Read more about it here.

Installation of coat racks connected with string in a galley with posters and a textile hung on the wall.
MDIDD Installation at HASTAC
MDIDD Installation at HASTAC
Close up of knit textile laying over paper with crochet pattern on it
Detail of Data Textile by Lubov McKone
Detail of Special Characters by Ava Kaplan
Detail of Top 8 by Jessika Davis – Motion sensor sound devices and thread edges connecting metal coat rack nodes.
Clear plastic covering a wooden floor with tiny beans sandwiched between. Bottom of metal poles with colorful thread zip-tied connecting the poles.
Detail of Top 8 by Jessika Davis – Data absence rug and thread edges connected to the pole nodes.

Jessika Davis’s Top 8 data visceralization exhibition close up and with the activated motion sensor sound devices.