Let us be clear. This project, with a working title of ‘Data -Voice’ is in its embryonic stages.
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As a newly forming collaborative duo our aim and focus is to come together to turn our respective methods, histories, narratives and processes towards the Mattering of Data in the world, through artistic means. There are of course a plethora of internet and installation based data visualisation projects which contribute enormously to any thinking and feeling about data as a field of the poetic or aesthetic. However, our aim is not to visualise as such (although we imagine the visual may still play a key role in the process) but in effect to play with the wider sensory qualities emergent within the field of data, to recognise and summon the internal life of data and to let the data voice itself through the various artistic means we wish to employ and test.

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We propose then, no less than a form of Data Metempsychosis, where the soul of one datum travels into the soul of another and where there is new life borne through this processes of transmogrification.

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If we can destabilise various ontological ‘norms’, such as writing, speaking, imaging, seeing and listening through the exploration, reflection and application of data then we may be on the right track. Perhaps we are effectively trying to create a new ‘noise’ which emerges from a mix of behavioural and semiotic classifications. But who knows? The supportive, yet critical, frame of Various Rehearsals in ‘Crisis Collective’ offers an opportunity to test a number of data/poetic propositions in the context of the borderlines which can be inhabited within artistic research. As the invitation to “Various Rehearsals” is to “let it blossom, let it bleed” then we would feel in good company.

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