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Title: Art and Data: Exploring Subjectivity and Objectivity in "Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers"
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2022
ISBN: 978-2-491997-56-4
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Abstract: What is the role of data in urban life – and by extension in a city museum? Through the case study of Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers, an exhibition presented at the Museum of the City of New York in 2019-2020, this paper investigates the power of data in a city museum context. It argues that clearly and compellingly presented data can connect residents and other museum visitors to important but often unseen and /or abstract aspects of the city. Artists can play a special role in this, by interpreting and problematizing data and making it emotionally as well as intellectually accessible. The paper emphasises that selfaware problematization of numbers is key and that museums need to be explicit about their methods, and to call attention to the hazards as well as the power of using data to characterise cities and urban issues.
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Authors: HENRY, SARAH M.
Editors: Savic, Jelena
Pages: 66-75
Volume Title: The Right to the City: Book of Proceedings
Publisher: CAMOC Annual Conference
Publisher Location: Krakow, Poland
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Edition: 1
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Other, Population Data Science
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