Draw Your Visit with Data

Draw Your Visit With Data

a workshop for the Museum of Modern Art, December 10, 2016

In December 2016, I had the pleasure of teaching a six-hour workshop in the Education Department at the Museum of Modern Art. In the class, called “Draw your Visit with Data,” we explored what using data — small and subjective data — as an observational tool and as a creative material could bring to, for example, the way we experience an exhibition.

The workshop was part of my ongoing research on what I call Data Humanism: an approach to the data world through which, I argue, we are ready to question the impersonality of a merely technical approach to data, and to reconnect numbers to what they really stand for: our lives.

Specifically, it is an opportunity to investigate how we can find and use data in contexts you wouldn’t expect — as a second pair of eyes: to learn how to see more and better, and to explore how small and subjective data can be an observational tool and a creative material we could bring to, for example, the way we experience an exhibition.

During the one-day workshop, we focused on a specific exhibition with works exclusively from the 1960s “a decade in which interdisciplinary artistic experimentation flourished, traditional mediums were transformed, and sociopolitical upheaval occurred across the globe” In the very nature of the exhibition, there is purposely no narrative that links the artworks other than chronology: participants needed to find their own story, using data as the guiding material to build their own personal, unique experience.

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Read more about this workshop experience on Medium