| Description | Jacob Lawrence Gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday from 10am to 5pm (with a 20-person limit), Fridays and Saturdays by appointment.
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to present Audrey Desjardins: Data Imaginaries, featuring the work of Audrey Desjardins, Assistant Professor of Interaction Design at the University of Washington’s School of Art + Art History + Design. In Data Imaginaries, Desjardins showcases a series of poetic interactions with domestic data, exploring familiar encounters between humans and things.The exhibition features five projects by Desjardins: in Data Epics, fiction writers use data from home Internet of Things devices to create short stories for the occupants to read. Voices and Voids, an artistic research project grounded in performance and experimentation, transcodes voice assistant data. ListeningCups embeds a set of 3D-printed porcelain cups with datasets of everyday ambient sounds. Alternative Avenues, a collaboration between Desjardins and home dwellers, imagines what the Internet of Things could be if it were designed for unique individual homes. The Odd Interpreters seeks to broaden people’s encounters with data in the context of their home, pushing them to engage directly in data collection and to consider the hidden entities, infrastructure, and labor that support connected devices. Shown alongside Audrey Desjardins: Data Imaginaries will be two installations originally created for the 2021 Seattle Design Festival. Vacant Seattle by Studio Matthews looks at what has been lost in Seattle over the course of the pandemic and invites participants to collectively re-imagine our city. Hello, World!, by UW design students Isabella Ceriale, Isabella Gaule, Sophia Johnson, Peyton Todd, and Charmaine Yabut, aims to help reconnect people to themselves and their communities as we inch our way towards emerging from the global pandemic. Additional information is at the link below. |
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