The Soft Data/Base compiles creative practices that record and/or confabulate soft(qualitative) data for invisible, illegible or otherwise data-avoidant experience. We are particularly attuned to crip and care frameworks wherein art is used as a tool for rendering and reorienting relationships with illness, grief, trauma, pain, etc.
Initiated as a Drew University Digital Humanities Summer Institute project, the Soft Data/Base holds and enacts arts-based research wherein written and oral communication is supplemented with networked drawing and collaborative screen, voice, and bird recording...[methodology continues on our About page]
keywords: care, data, diagnosis, meditation, observation, defamiliarization, appropriation, accessibility, visualization, process, method, disability, catharsis, crip, chronic, ill, sick, grief, trauma, glitch, mediation, collaboration, experimentation, chance, ritual, practice...[keywords continue on our Sandbox page]
Digital drawings accompanying project titles were each made as an initial meditation on that work by the Soft Data/Base team. Each drawing links to a corresponding project page with links and descriptions.