Thank you Nicoleta for the greatly informative and generative chats:

 

What would an inclusive census look like?

Random thoughts:

Speculative history/present/future

Re-imagined documents

Inclusion

Political, economical

Belonging

Emotional texture

Mood board

Away from topic to expressive

What experiment can I conduct to better understand topic

Journaling

Write a short story?

Interviews?

Jamesie, Nicoleta, Alison, David, Sophia, Maya, Alice, Duane, Alison, Sophia

Categorization as a social phenomenon

“Ed Ruscha” audio piece

Hybridity (Homi Bhabha)

Olivia Butler

Ethnography

Margaret Mead

Phrenology

Hal Foster: The Artist as Ethnographer?

Questions:

  1. Seen,unseen:
  2. Census
  3. “Naming”
  4. Race
  5. Colorism v Racism
  6. Desire
  7. Activity
  8. Location, geography, urban-rural (etc)
  9. Seen and unseen
  10. What isn’t there is an indication of being seen
  11. Multiple selves, multiple identities
  12. Labels inherited, defense mechanisms, aspirational
  13. Internalization, external
  14. Horizontal acknowledgement of difference

 

Hayden made some comments in the Local Data class that I find very helpful in my thinking through further ideas about making an inclusive and participatory census online:

  • No, (data are) not always “better.” Data is representations of the real world. Civilization is built on traditions, traditions that are founded on embodied interactions , “being there,” and physical artifacts.  The digital world has created so much data, representing our real world and traditions not how our history has become accustomed to. Data appropriate our history. It makes our traditions that shouldn’t be repeatable, repeatable. The data of the digital world doesn’t give people who are the subjects of the data a voice.
  • Data appropriates history and destroys embodied memorialization