As a Power Plant Gallery Artist-in-Residence during the summer of 2021, I had a space away from home to feel the affects of the pandemic differently and to face grief over so much theft of life. I felt the space filling itself and me with a different sensitivity to making and perceiving. I began working with Covid-19 data, challenging myself to make counted data and its gaps feel more embodied. The in/ability to feel a relationship to large numbers, to feel and gather a sense of scale, is not just a question of processing the pandemic. It is also a fundamental question of socio-computational ontologies like digital networks. The presented works from the residency ask, how can data vibrate, particularly beyond one-to-one correlation? Can these vibrational margins of indeterminacy account for the unaccounted with and without counting?
Untitled (reported North Carolina Covid-19 death increases as wind in the trees), Unity open world game, 2021. Photo by Kate Alexandrite.
Untitled (reported North Carolina Covid-19 death increases as wind in the trees), Unity open world game, 2021. Photo by Kate Alexandrite.
Click on the above image to access the open world or go here: https://play.unity.com/mg/other/aswind-3n
Untitled, four audio channels, 2021. Photo by Kate Alexandrite.
Recording at Falls Lake, NC in October 2020, I asked four individuals to talk about anything on their mind. Each speaker is a looped recording from one person, and the volume of all speakers equally fluctuates according to daily total U.S. state reported Covid-19 deaths from January 2020 up until the day of the recording. The higher the volume, the lower the increase in reported deaths. The lower the volume, the higher the increase in reported deaths. The data cycle about every five minutes and are collected by the Covid Tracking Project.
Untitled, four audio channels, 2021. Photo by Kate Alexandrite.