Category: Placemats Project
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Placemats at the SJSU Digital Humanities Center
We are so pleased to be able to run an installation of Placemats, collaborative woven data visualizations based on feelings, at the Open House for the Digital Humanities Center at San José State University on Tuesday, October 15. The theme for programming for the center for 2024-2025 is “Community, Ethics, Technology.” So we will be…
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Placemats @ HASTAC 2023
In June 2023, we brought our Placemats project to the bi-annual meeting of HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, hosted at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. The theme of the conference was “Critical Making + Social Justice,” and it seemed like the perfect place to hand make data visualizations connected to…
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Placemats
Placemats is a collaborative weaving project to produce data visualizations. Using the HASTAC blog and social media, we will collect submissions of keywords in advance of the conference that signify points of connection, shared experiences, or commonalities during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These keywords form the foundation (by labeling the warp strands) of each woven…