Data & Data that is personally meaningful
Today data is one of the most valued commodities of our economy. Every interaction with technological objects produces more data. “The average person checks their email 11 times per hour, processes 122 messages a day, and spends 28% of their total workweek managing their inbox”. As prosumers, we are producing and consuming while sitting atop a vast reserve of data that will eventually be mined, harvested to produce value. What does it mean to meaningfully engage with this data? 

Unembroidered Data
This is a ritual of inactivity. The embroidery depicts my interaction with digital technologies mainly, my phone. I make and then unmake while using my phone to record these interactions. In doing so, I foreclose the possibility of using my phone for the period. By subtracting the ‘function’ from these gestures, one is able to see the similarity between these seemingly dissimilar interactions.

The piece explores the various gestures we employ to interact with the myriad interfaces that prescribe them. Can our interactions with these technologies be visualized and made tangible? Will that change our relationship with them? Can simplifying and modularizing these interactions help demystify them? Can it reveal insights? Help us see patterns and connections that they might hold? Can it encourage us to pay more attention to the sheer complexity of data that drive our simplest everyday actions?

I am interested in exploring how the act of mapping and embroidering interactions with these technologies become personally meaningful for me by revealing how I choose to spend my time?