Doing Data
2022
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Doing Data is a series of experimental sculptures made from things labelled ‘offcuts and remnants’ in the database of all of the things in my studio (2020-23). I randomly allocated these things into groups to make each work, and devised making strategies from ways of reframing gaps and errors as space for reconfiguration and new approaches. Each sculpture is accompanied by a datasheet that describes the materials and strategies used. The support structures for the works point to an underlying question of the project: should the thing conform to the structure, or should the structure adapt to the thing?
This project is informed by my experiences as a data analyst. It was created for The University of Edinburgh’s Creative Informatics ‘Creative Horizons’ project ‘There be Dragons’, exhibited at Inspace, Edinburgh, curated by Mark Daniels. The database of all of the things in my studio, titled 'BitParts' was a digitised, tagged iteration of the durational drawing project 'Fragments of a Method'.