Kate Elswit

Dunham's Data Portfolio Unboxing This limited-edition book (including a gorgeous visual essay) represent key datasets, essays, and visualizations from our born-digital research project, Dunham’s…

Over the moon that the portfolios from Dunham’s Data are here!! These limited-edition books (including a gorgeous visual essay) represent key datasets, essays, and visualizations from our born-digital research project. Harmony I are so excited that we made an unboxing video vimeo.com/1111500640?s...

Congratulations, Doug!

We guess that Monday miracle for #NEH employees won't be happening after all. Tomorrow over 100 staff and public servants of the #humanities will be terminated from their positions. It's heartbreaking and so completely unnecessary.

Join us Tomorrow, 4/30 at 11am est for an Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process. This event is hosted by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the American Historical Association, & the Modern Language Association. Register and find more info at: buff.ly/bfVNUhR

It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that #NEH grant funding for "Extending the London Stage Database" was terminated abruptly earlier this month. You can help us advocate for the importance of this project and the #humanities more broadly. Read more:

Honored to see Dunham's Data in #ReviewsInDH, described as "a revelational choreographic inquiry and model digital humanist intervention"!

Photograph of two large screens with white backgrounds hung in a large red-painted gallery with scattered visitors, with a banner below reading "our work has been longlisted!"

Things that make me happy today: our Radical Accounting series from the Edges of Ailey exhibit was longlisted for the Information is Beautiful Awards. The showcase links to @whitney.org's site where the time-based interventions are now archived www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/761...

On Episode 077, Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit tell us about the data visualizations in the Edges of Ailey exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and Katherine Profeta tells us about her work with Ralph Lemon, the subject of a major exhibition at MOMA/PS1. www.ontappod.com/home/2025/1/...

It’s been over three months since Edges of Ailey opened at @whitney.org (one month left!) and I’m still in awe every time I see folks take the time to truly watch our visualizations.

Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Funded by a £5.6 million grant, the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) will expand the excellent research currently conducted in the Performance Lab at Central, where ground-breakin...

Apply for the second cohort of fully-funded collaborative PhD studentships in the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ)! Partners are Havering London, Vital Xposure, Digital Black Dance Ecologies, and Kinetic Light. Full details under "Work with Us": www.cssd.ac.uk/research/pteq

Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Funded by a £5.6 million grant, the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) will expand the excellent research currently conducted in the Performance Lab at Central, where ground-breakin...

Apply for the second cohort of fully-funded collaborative PhD studentships in the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ)! Partners are Havering London, Vital Xposure, Digital Black Dance Ecologies, and Kinetic Light. Full details under "Work with Us": www.cssd.ac.uk/research/pteq

Visceral Histories, Visual Arguments Dance-Based Approaches to Data

Oh shoot! Discovering that placeholder page doesn’t link through to the project blog. It’s here: visceralhistories.wordpress.com

Welcome to Bsky @whitney.org !

Welcome to Bsky @whitney.org !

The Whitney Museum’s Edges of Ailey exhibition catalogue made the New York Times Holiday Gift Guide! It’s gold and has a centerfold specially made for our vizzes.

Come talk dance data with me in Atlanta next Monday!

‘Edges of Ailey’ Brings Dance to the Whitney Don’t miss the accompanying performance series with a lineup that includes Trajal Harrell, Ralph Lemon, Kevin Beasley and Sarah Michelson.

Collecting lovely things. Here is the Observer's review of our work: "The three animations of visualized data charting Ailey’s impact on dance throughout time and space are an unexpected delight. [...]. The animations are fascinating, quite beautiful and worth a view."
observer.com/2024/10/art-...

Ok, ok, I’ll be the one to start a Theater & Performance Studies “starter pack.”

Please help me grow it?

go.bsky.app/JWVbyvP

‘Edges of Ailey’ Brings Dance to the Whitney Don’t miss the accompanying performance series with a lineup that includes Trajal Harrell, Ralph Lemon, Kevin Beasley and Sarah Michelson.

Collecting lovely things. Here is the Observer's review of our work: "The three animations of visualized data charting Ailey’s impact on dance throughout time and space are an unexpected delight. [...]. The animations are fascinating, quite beautiful and worth a view."
observer.com/2024/10/art-...

When doing data viz related to another country, maybe folks should understand the significance of colors in that place?

Three people look at data visualisations in a gallery; wall text for the Radical Accounting series; proud researchers dressed up for an opening.

The Edges of Ailey exhibit is now open at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Come for a gorgeous show that riffs on the aesthetics of Alvin Ailey. Stay for the Radical Accounting series of dance data visualisations. So proud of our team!

Three people look at data visualisations in a gallery; wall text for the Radical Accounting series; proud researchers dressed up for an opening.

The Edges of Ailey exhibit is now open at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Come for a gorgeous show that riffs on the aesthetics of Alvin Ailey. Stay for the Radical Accounting series of dance data visualisations. So proud of our team!

The Alvin Ailey exhibition at the Whitney is exceptional.

It'd be worth the walk over to see the 1950s-1960s era paintings by Black artists. But there's so much more, including a unique project visualizing and surfacing patterns in a dataset derived from 30,000 paper records. More on that later!

Welcome! Oddly I’m finding LinkedIn as a more useful space for actual conversations lately, but still floating here occasionally.

New blog: An expansive understanding of motion data rooted in bodily archives can offer a fuller understanding of the past while also demanding that we sit with the ethical problems that arise when data is seemingly detachable from its human sources. visceralhistories.wordpress.com/2024/08/27/e...

The burr grinder is a serious flex.

Still trying to find my performance people here but this is worth shouting even into a void:
Delighted to share Tia-Monique Uzor's beautiful Dunham's Data essay on Tidalectics and African Diasporic Imagination in the work of Katherine Dunham, now out in DRJ! #dancedata doi.org/10.1017/S014...

Post Doctoral Researchers in the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) x2 | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama pleased to advertise roles for two Postdoctoral Researchers, who will be core members of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama’s newly founded Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PT...

We are also recruiting for the first two Postdoctoral Researchers who will help build the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity. Preference is for work in the areas of XR and/or access. Please make introductions! www.cssd.ac.uk/jobs-at-cent...

Post Doctoral Researchers in the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) x2 | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama pleased to advertise roles for two Postdoctoral Researchers, who will be core members of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama’s newly founded Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PT...

We are also recruiting for the first two Postdoctoral Researchers who will help build the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity. Preference is for work in the areas of XR and/or access. Please make introductions! www.cssd.ac.uk/jobs-at-cent...

Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Funded by a £5.6 million grant, the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) will expand the excellent research currently conducted in the Performance Lab at Central, where ground-breakin...

Delighted to share the new site for the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ), with 5x funded collaborative PhD studentships in Digital Communities & Creative Health, Accessible Archiving, Digital Cultural Heritage, Creative Technologies in Public Arts www.cssd.ac.uk/research/cen...