‘Anatomy of an AI System’ by Kate Crawford for me depicted a huge web of planetary connections between what looks like an innocuous electronic and the highly disturbing account of the resources that it took to make it - as well as the data the device is collecting all the…
Data: Schonfeld, Roger, and Sweeney, Liam. Diversity Survey of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Grantees, 2015 - on the National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC) website https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NADAC/ accessed here: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NADAC/studies/36606Working…
Claim: More recent hiring at NYC museums has seen an increase in Black/African American staff but a decrease in Hispanic staffData: Diversity Survey of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Grantees, 2015 (ICPSR 36606) https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/RCMD/studies/36606d3/aws node: https://console.…
TopicNYC museums and staff diversityThis data visualization explores the job types in NYC museums by number, who is in those jobs and what level these job types are (junior/mid/senior)Data setSchonfeld, Roger, and Sweeney, Liam. Diversity Survey of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Grantees, 2015…
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/04/upshot/senate-maps.html…
In the Anti-Sublime Ideal in New Media, 2002, Lev Manovich describes what data mapping new media art and what some of it’s characteristics are, looks at some artists, and gives an overview of what he think may be missing and is yet to be done.Manovich connects the concept…
Chs 7-10 cohesively lay out what a good research argument is (a lively “conversation in which you and your imagined readers cooperatively explore an issue that you both think is important to resolve” p108), approaches to planning, elements that make up a research argument, and step through details relating to…
Chs. 3-6 in Asking Questions, Finding Answers outline overall approaches to research with specific, focused, practical approaches to planning and starting to execute projects. The thing that struck me most about the reading is the emphasis on the reader. Not what research are you interested but turning the perspective around…
wednesday15.77% of the artworks in The Metropolitan's Modern and Contemporary Art Collection are by women (2,027 out of the total 14,350 artworks are by women and 10,829 are by men = 12,856 artworks. Here not including the 1,494 that are ‘unknown’ maker, or the artwork…