Experimental Landscape: Dislocated Data.
This multicomponent output comprises: an online app and a sculpture, a sound work, and a mixed-media installation. Experimental Landscape: Dislocated Data provides a glimpse of the invisible: the vast scientific and technological infrastructures whose concealed existence is rarely questioned. Leading to new representations as evocative soundscapes, visual and material manifestations, dislocation emerges as a key research method for revealing complex landscapes and forms using data’s own technological qualities to create discrete sensory experiences. Funded by Portikus at Städehlschule, Frankfurt am Main, Bournemouth University and Data Transpositions, with the Austrian Science Fund. See Portfolio Booklet for documentation of research dimensions.
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- qqy3y
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- T - Other
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- Location
- Infomoma - Portikus gallery, Frankfurt am Main, June 2014; Hyperdrone - Wysing Arts Centre, Cambs, Aug 2015; All that is Data - Fargbariken gallery, Stockholm, Oct 2017.
- Brief description of type
- Other: Multicomponent
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- June
- Year
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Extensive fieldwork in Frankfurt led to insights into the scale and complexity of high-speed financial-trading networks, and the realisation of an app and large-scale sculptural intervention that linked data sites with gallery audiences. Further research into global data infrastructures led to the work of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation, an NGO that monitors nuclear testing using a global network of remote seismic sensors. Obtaining seismic data from its closed global sensor network, White and collaborators developed research to dislocate seismic waves into sound as resonating frequencies in an experimental sculpture. Lastly, this same data was dislocated into light and captured through a series of photographic experiments inside the decommissioned nuclear reactor R1 in Stockholm.
As summarised by Rajan, Experimental Landscape: Data Dislocation proposes a method of inquiry into “the dark side of evidence”, in order to explore “that which is not there, not readily available, not usable to prove claims or foster discoveries... what is tacit, ignored, denied, forbidden, private, inaccessible, unknown and/or unexplored”. The dislocation of data from hidden scientific / technological frameworks to cultural spaces or networks reveals absences in order to maps zones of exclusion in what we imagine to be our open and democratic knowledge-based society.
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