{"id":10015,"date":"2025-04-29T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/?p=10015"},"modified":"2025-05-14T06:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:51:40","slug":"books-as-art-art-as-data-a-dh-project-in-collaboration-with-the-center-for-book-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2025\/books-as-art-art-as-data-a-dh-project-in-collaboration-with-the-center-for-book-arts","title":{"rendered":"Books as Art, Art as Data: A DH project in Collaboration with the Center for Book Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#9e7110\">Abstract<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In partnership with New York City\u2019s Center for Book Arts (CBA), the Fall 2024 Advanced Projects in Digital Humanities course at Pratt Institute\u2019s School of Information developed a constellation of data-driven projects highlighting the CBA\u2019s collection and the field of artists\u2019 books. The project explores the collections, exhibitions, and institutional history of the CBA through analysis of data the CBA has collected across its 50 year history, spotlighting the institution in order to cultivate interest in its collections and in books as art. Given the CBA\u2019s role as a museum, archive, and working studio, the overall project aims to connect with people across its community.<b> <\/b><b><i>Books as Art, Art as Data <\/i><\/b><b>embraces digital humanities methodologies to further the CBA\u2019s mission of democratizing the powerful medium of the book.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Books as Art, Art as Data<\/i> is housed in <a href=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/bookarts\/\">a website that serves as a portal<\/a> to all the other elements of our project: a timeline of the CBA\u2019s exhibition history; an exploration of the relationships between the collection items; a narrative exploring the institution\u2019s history in NYC as it has moved; and a network exploring book arts methods and terms. In addition, the project provides resources for students and scholars looking to do further research, including <a href=\"https:\/\/pratt.darcykrasne.com\/cba_bookarts_map\/\">a map of other artists\u2019 book collections in the US and Canada<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/zfkx7\/?view_only=abc854ec2ea64f8dac99738a87b743c5\">the underlying data from the project<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/bookarts\/process-blog\/\">documentation of our process<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/bookarts\/bookization-the-cbas-fine-art-collection-data-as-book-art\/\" style=\"border-radius:10px;background-color:#9e7110\">Project Website <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#9e7110\">Individual Projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/bookarts\/50-years-of-cba\/\">50 Years of CBA: A Data Timeline<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Interactive timeline tool to explore the data from the Center for Book Arts for 50 years.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/bookarts\/the-binding-threads-of-new-york\/\">The Binding Threads of New York<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Exploring the connections that weave together the fabric of New York City, one story at a time.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/bookarts\/process-blog\/\">Process Blog and Documentation<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>A series of blog posts containing interviews documenting challenges the team faced across the<\/em> <em>project<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/bookarts\/maddys-project-title\/\">Binding it all Together<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Tools and resources, including a zine which document the project&#8217;s process or relate to the website design<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/bookarts\/title-to-come\/\">Names of Names<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Exploring the connections of the field of an artist\u2019s book and its influence with text, in this case, its subject categories<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/bookarts\/bookization-the-cbas-fine-art-collection-data-as-book-art\/\">Bookization: The CBA\u2019s Fine Art Collection Data as Book Art<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>A project using data analysis and book-making to investigate the contours of the Center for Book Arts&#8217; Fine Art collection as it is represented on the CBA&#8217;s website. The resulting data physicalization highlights connections and similarities between objects, missing data, and <em>the language used to represent the objects in a digital space.<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract In partnership with New York City\u2019s Center for Book Arts (CBA), the Fall 2024 Advanced Projects in Digital Humanities course at Pratt Institute\u2019s School of Information developed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4128,"featured_media":10080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1268],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1303,1300,1304,1305,1301],"class_list":["post-10015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1268"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10015"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10665,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions\/10665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}