Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2017

Publication Title

Leonardo

Volume

50

Issue

2

First page number:

186

Last page number:

187

Abstract

Designed as a “provocative artifact” to raise questions about how information is collected, archived, and employed, the multimedia piece Annie and the Shaman raises timely questions about the increasingly pervasive (and often naïve) use of data. Annie and the Shaman links two contexts with notable data histories: Nevada’s Basin and Range region and information about aboveground atomic testing. To force an empirical engagement with the location, the photographer-researcher summarized data about an atomic test into an infographic, and, in contrast to composing visuals post-hoc, integrated it with a relevant context on location. Similar techniques can raise questions about other contexts.

Controlled Subject

Multimedia communications; Visualization--Data processing; Nuclear weapons--Testing; Nevada

Disciplines

Journalism Studies

File Format

PDF

File Size

3503 KB

Language

English

Permissions

©2017 ISAST

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IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Publisher Citation

Julian Kilker; Annie and the Shaman: Exploring Data via Provocative Artifacts. Leonardo 2017; 50 (2): 186–187. doi:https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01380

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