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...

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"!

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.

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

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

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!

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

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-...

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 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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

Join our working session on Big Histories: Experimental Methods for Tracking Change Across Bodies, Generations, and Geographies in Performance! www.astr.org/page/24_work...

So excited to share that we have been awarded £5.6 million to found a Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity, with the idea that performance-led perspectives and promotion of social equity are critical to technological innovation both for the arts and beyond. www.cssd.ac.uk/news/central...

OA online preprints warp time. But my Cultural Studies article is now official! It's the long form of my thinking on the "coronasphere" and how breath shifts the scale of bodies in a pandemic. (Peer reviewer: I have major fatigue with pandemic content but this convinced me.) doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Nothing says "grant crunch" like pruning all the house plants.

_Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023_ is now live and open-access on the Manifold DDH platform!! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/deb... @laurenfklein.bsky.social & I offer deepest thanks to our contributors for their work and to @uminnpress.bsky.social for its support of open-access publishing!

Thank you, Eileen!

Current work hotel room in Cologne is a turret, which is delightful.

Call for Applications: I been honored to serve on the jury for the Just Tech Fellowship for 2 years now, going into my 3rd. The fellows we've been able to support are out here changing the world, and SSRC has been taking real good care of them. Are you next? www.ssrc.org/programs/jus...

I love what these dance scholars do and I’m excited to see they’re contributing to the Alvin Ailey show. It's a very different way to do dance history. In earlier work, they visualized the historical choreography of Katherine Dunham using computer vision and ML to extract data from dance footage.

Beyond thrilled to announce our commission from the Whitney Museum of American Art for dance history visualizations as part of the Edges of Ailey exhibition in Sept 2024. R&D also supported by the AHRC under our Visceral Histories project. Institutional news item: www.cssd.ac.uk/news/kate-el...

New blog post on the technical challenges Visceral Histories postdoc Nicola is finding while surfacing motion data from historical dance footage. This connects to our questions around embodied archives, consent, racialized data, and AI visceralhistories.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/3...