Kelsey Brod: Works-In-Process

#PPGArtist Kelsey Brod
Works-In-Process

My residency at Power Plant gave me a space 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-in-process 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?

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Untitled(reported North Carolina state Covid-19 death increases as wind in the trees), work-in-process,Unity game engine, 2021

Kelsey Brod is an artist, writer, and PhD student in the Computational Media, Arts and Cultures program at Duke University.