Reflections on remixing data in the Congruence Engine
This reflection examines the potential of combining data, stories and histories to explore the links that emerge from crossing data streams.
Detail of yarn on a spinning machine.
https://congruenceengine.yarncommunity.org/storage/YARN_detail_1658744742.jpg
My reflection begins with the metaphor of yarn and the intersections that take place between different threads of data. Looking at the projects that everyone has been working on it has become clear that each intersect in some way with each other through place, personality, theme and technology.
A sketch film.
https://vimeo.com/731827931/2456aa4ccb
One of the interesting considerations has been about how can tell the stories of the relationships between workers and machines. Paul Craddock has been experimenting with film and sound. Here is a draft of something he is working on.
The Congruence Engine project provides us with the opportunity of working in creative ways to tell stories and make links between collections, histories and personal experiences.
From Reflections on remixing data in the Congruence Engine
The Congruence Engine project provides us with the opportunity of working in creative ways to tell stories and make links between collections, histories and personal experiences.
It has been interesting observing how other people have been working on their projects and how stories and enquiries have increasingly overlapped and benefitted from collaborations.
The branching out of historical threads has encouraged us to draw across different sets of resources and think about creative interventions. The sue of moving image and sound have become particularly important.
The role of 'remixing' has also become a potent way of thinking about how people make sense of stories, data and creative interventions 'in and with' different data.
Much of the experimental approach that has emerged has relied on mixing often discrete elements and making potent connections.