Data Physicalizations and Counterimage Assignment Overview
Explore the practice of data physicalizations transcending traditional data visualization paradigms, and delve into creating a counterimage challenging dominant representations across media and culture. Get insights on key texts, resources, and the conceptual framework for your project.
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week 11: complexity + Guest Presentation: Gabrielle Simard + Tracking Amazon Web Services + Data physicalizations are emerging as a design practice transcending the visio-centrist paradigm of data visualization. Data can be encoded through modalities beyond vision such as sound, smell, taste, physical touch and even behaviour, involving a wider portion of the human experience into the discovery of information provided by the piece. 2
week 11: complexity + Assignment: Counterimage (Proposal: October 28, 10% / Final: December 2, 50%) + Overview: + Draw upon one or more of the weekly topics to conceive of an open-ended response or counterimage + Your project should challenge or contest dominant representations and norms depicted in media, advertising, arts, and culture + Reflect your own intersectional identity, which may or may not have been explicitly addressed in the 12-week semester + The project could conceivably be an extension of the Who am We? Assignment + It might also present an opportunity to develop a submission for the annual year-end exhibition + We have been trying to theorize identity as constituted, not outside but within representation; [ ] not as a second-order mirror held up to reflect what already exits, but as that form of representation which is able to constitute us as new kinds of subjects, and thereby enable us to discover places from which to speak. - Stuart Hall. Cultural Identity and Diaspora, Identity: Community, Culture, Difference + Inspiration: + 5000 Feet is the Best, Omer Fast (2015) + Art21 interview with Omer Fast 3
week 11: complexity + Assignment: Counterimage (Proposal: October 28, 10% / Final: December 2, 50%) + Proposal: + Possible formats: website, video, animation, graphic novel/zine, poster series, 3D/sculptural piece, speculative furniture/lighting, another bookwork, etc. + May be completed as a collaborative team project speak with me about parameters + Elements to include: + Key texts/resources that will be guiding the development of your work + Preliminary sketches, moodboards, keywords + Resource requirements (CDA, CTC, etc.) + Preliminary timeline + If you are working in a team, identify primary responsibilities for each member + Projects requiring specific spaces within the department: contact Mich early for bookings (michelina.sardella@concordia.ca). + Summarize the general conceptual framework and intended message or manifesto (~500 words) + Who is your audience? + Where do you foresee this being disseminated? 4
week 11: complexity + Assignment: Counterimage (Proposal: October 28, 10% / Final: December 2, 50%) + Final Presentation: + Presentations will take place during our last class session on December 2 + General tours and viewing of works, followed by 5-10-minute formal critiques + Install works prior to start of the class to keep things flowing smoothly + We will discuss placement and requirements in week 11 + Coordinate with CDA for any equipment needs book early! + Process document and reflective statement (~500 words) + You are advised to be compiling this information in parallel to the project production to avoid a rush at the end of the semester + Upload a PDF copy to Moodle 5
week 11: complexity + For Next Week: + There are no required readings or viewings for next week + Finalize development on the Counterimage project + Prepare for installation before the beginning of class next week + In order to get through all presentations/critiques, it is vital that we start on time + Speak with me if you have any special requests or needs 6
