WORKSHOP: Data as Documentary Graham Harwood / YoHa
10:00 -14:00 Saturday 1st October 2011

 FACT Medialab, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ

 http://www.andfestival.org.uk/event/workshop-data-documentary

 This workshop is derived from previous research with Liverpool Primary Care trust into the recording of birth. Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both have a clear relationship to a form of factual truth that can empower, both have the capacity for propaganda and deception, both form views that are privileged by their authors. The film director directs the eyepiece of the camera through the conduct of the cameraman and the editor shapes and cuts the film to create an agreed view for a set audience and the promotion of a particular ideology. The database administrator also constructs views of the data that can only be seen by particular roles within the enterprise. In association with analysts they also produce queries that iterate over the data atoms to configure them into particular narratives formed from the enterprise’s ideology. Given this correlation what methodologies exist or need to be developed for artists to interrogate databases as documentary as they invisibly, yet tangibly glue our lives together? Databases amplify some truths and help to disprove others at the same time create crisis, energies for change. How can art critically reflect on the way the relational machine creates new knowledge and with it power? Yoha.co.uk 
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