Author: Alyse Delaney

Alyse (she/hers) is an artist, archivist, data visualist, memory mapper, and food scholar. Her academic research examines embodied, emotional, and cultural experiences of data and archival information, particularly through the acts of cooking and eating. She stands by the idea that food is political and seeks to use critical archival storytelling to uncover personal and community histories through food. This May, she will earn an MSLIS from Pratt Institute with an Advanced Certificate in Spatial Analysis and Design.

“Oyster Bisque”: A zine about food and archives

The inaugural issue of “Oyster Bisque” is inspired by the women who worked or studied at the Pratt Institute School of Household Science & Arts in the early…

Archives and Art-making class exhibition

The exhibition will comprise the students’ final projects—artworks that integrate or draw inspiration from digital or analog materials from the Pratt Institute Archives.

Cooking as Conversation: Embracing Embodied Knowledge and Oral History in Culinary Information Systems

Using my experience cooking my grandfather’s pierogi recipe, this presentation examines how culinary information is disseminated through written and oral communication. It analyzes the structure of instructional food…

Evaluating the Digital Experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

This project assesses digital content at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It asks: How are digital components embedded in a cultural institution as large as the Met? And…