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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Aug 20

Over the moon that the portfolios from Dunham’s Data are here!! These limited-edition books (including a gorgeous visual essay) represent key datasets, essays, and visualizations from our born-digital research project. Harmony I are so excited that we made an unboxing video vimeo.com/1111500640?s...

Dunham's Data Portfolio Unboxing

This limited-edition book (including a gorgeous visual essay) represent key datasets, essays, and visualizations from our born-digital research project, Dunham’s…

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congratulations, Doug!

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · Jun 9

We guess that Monday miracle for #NEH employees won't be happening after all. Tomorrow over 100 staff and public servants of the #humanities will be terminated from their positions. It's heartbreaking and so completely unnecessary.

Alt National Endowment for the Humanities @altnehgov.altgov.info · Jun 9

We know we’ve been more quiet on here lately. We’re hoping for a Monday miracle today, friends. We know so many of you are as well (for various reasons).

Although NEH has ceased to exist in its former glory for the past 59 days, tomorrow it becomes very real. (1/2)

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ACH @ach.bsky.social · Apr 29

Join us Tomorrow, 4/30 at 11am est for an Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process. This event is hosted by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the American Historical Association, & the Modern Language Association. Register and find more info at: buff.ly/bfVNUhR

Event: Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process

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The London Stage Database @londonstagedb.bsky.social · Apr 15

It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that #NEH grant funding for "Extending the London Stage Database" was terminated abruptly earlier this month. You can help us advocate for the importance of this project and the #humanities more broadly. Read more:

Defunded but undeterred – Extending the London Stage Database

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Mar 31

Honored to see Dunham's Data in #ReviewsInDH, described as "a revelational choreographic inquiry and model digital humanist intervention"!

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Mar 31

* Dunham's Data, a data curation and visualization project on dancer Katherine Dunham, led by Kate Elswit and Harmony Bench, and reviewed by Sydney Skybetter reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/dunhmans... #ReviewsInDH @somethingmodern.bsky.social

Review: Dunham's Data

A review of Dunham's Data, a data curation and visualization project on dancer Katherine Dunham, led by Kate Elswit and Harmony Bench

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Mar 12

Things that make me happy today: our Radical Accounting series from the Edges of Ailey exhibit was longlisted for the Information is Beautiful Awards. The showcase links to @whitney.org's site where the time-based interventions are now archived www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/761...

Photograph of two large screens with white backgrounds hung in a large red-painted gallery with scattered visitors, with a banner below reading "our work has been longlisted!"

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · Jan 30

On Episode 077, Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit tell us about the data visualizations in the Edges of Ailey exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and Katherine Profeta tells us about her work with Ralph Lemon, the subject of a major exhibition at MOMA/PS1. www.ontappod.com/home/2025/1/...

077 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast

A special edition of the podcast on Dance Data and Dramaturgy. Pannill, Brian, and Shayoni welcome Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit to talk about their data visualizations that are part of the Edges of A...

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Jan 5

It’s been over three months since Edges of Ailey opened at @whitney.org (one month left!) and I’m still in awe every time I see folks take the time to truly watch our visualizations.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Dec 10

Apply for the second cohort of fully-funded collaborative PhD studentships in the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ)! Partners are Havering London, Vital Xposure, Digital Black Dance Ecologies, and Kinetic Light. Full details under "Work with Us": www.cssd.ac.uk/research/pteq

Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Funded by a £5.6 million grant, the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) will expand the excellent research currently conducted in the Performance Lab at Central, where ground-breakin...

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Dec 10

Apply for the second cohort of fully-funded collaborative PhD studentships in the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ)! Partners are Havering London, Vital Xposure, Digital Black Dance Ecologies, and Kinetic Light. Full details under "Work with Us": www.cssd.ac.uk/research/pteq

Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Funded by a £5.6 million grant, the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) will expand the excellent research currently conducted in the Performance Lab at Central, where ground-breakin...

www.cssd.ac.uk

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Dec 7

Oh shoot! Discovering that placeholder page doesn’t link through to the project blog. It’s here: visceralhistories.wordpress.com

Visceral Histories, Visual Arguments

Dance-Based Approaches to Data

visceralhistories.wordpress.com

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Nov 20

Welcome to Bsky @whitney.org !

Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Nov 14

The Whitney Museum’s Edges of Ailey exhibition catalogue made the New York Times Holiday Gift Guide! It’s gold and has a centerfold specially made for our vizzes.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Nov 20

Welcome to Bsky @whitney.org !

Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Nov 14

The Whitney Museum’s Edges of Ailey exhibition catalogue made the New York Times Holiday Gift Guide! It’s gold and has a centerfold specially made for our vizzes.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Nov 14

The Whitney Museum’s Edges of Ailey exhibition catalogue made the New York Times Holiday Gift Guide! It’s gold and has a centerfold specially made for our vizzes.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Nov 13

Come talk dance data with me in Atlanta next Monday!

Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · Nov 13

Atlanta friends! Join us on Monday 11/18 at 4pm to welcome Kate Elswit to @emorycollege.bsky.social for her talk, "Dance-Based Knowledge and Data Praxis." RSVP here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/1079742923...

Astoundingly beautiful flyer for "Dance-Based Knowledge and Data Praxis" featuring a still from an Alvin Ailey performance rendered as pink and burgundy ascii art

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Nov 8

Collecting lovely things. Here is the Observer's review of our work: "The three animations of visualized data charting Ailey’s impact on dance throughout time and space are an unexpected delight. [...]. The animations are fascinating, quite beautiful and worth a view."
observer.com/2024/10/art-...

‘Edges of Ailey’ Brings Dance to the Whitney

Don’t miss the accompanying performance series with a lineup that includes Trajal Harrell, Ralph Lemon, Kevin Beasley and Sarah Michelson.

observer.com

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Chris Grobe @cgrobe.bsky.social · Nov 10

Ok, ok, I’ll be the one to start a Theater & Performance Studies “starter pack.”

Please help me grow it?

go.bsky.app/JWVbyvP

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Nov 8

Collecting lovely things. Here is the Observer's review of our work: "The three animations of visualized data charting Ailey’s impact on dance throughout time and space are an unexpected delight. [...]. The animations are fascinating, quite beautiful and worth a view."
observer.com/2024/10/art-...

‘Edges of Ailey’ Brings Dance to the Whitney

Don’t miss the accompanying performance series with a lineup that includes Trajal Harrell, Ralph Lemon, Kevin Beasley and Sarah Michelson.

observer.com

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Nov 6

When doing data viz related to another country, maybe folks should understand the significance of colors in that place?

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Sep 24

The Edges of Ailey exhibit is now open at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Come for a gorgeous show that riffs on the aesthetics of Alvin Ailey. Stay for the Radical Accounting series of dance data visualisations. So proud of our team!

Three people look at data visualisations in a gallery; wall text for the Radical Accounting series; proud researchers dressed up for an opening.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Sep 24

The Edges of Ailey exhibit is now open at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Come for a gorgeous show that riffs on the aesthetics of Alvin Ailey. Stay for the Radical Accounting series of dance data visualisations. So proud of our team!

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Sep 20

The Alvin Ailey exhibition at the Whitney is exceptional.

It'd be worth the walk over to see the 1950s-1960s era paintings by Black artists. But there's so much more, including a unique project visualizing and surfacing patterns in a dataset derived from 30,000 paper records. More on that later!

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Aug 27

Welcome! Oddly I’m finding LinkedIn as a more useful space for actual conversations lately, but still floating here occasionally.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · Aug 27

New blog: An expansive understanding of motion data rooted in bodily archives can offer a fuller understanding of the past while also demanding that we sit with the ethical problems that arise when data is seemingly detachable from its human sources. visceralhistories.wordpress.com/2024/08/27/e...

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