The embroidery data-art piece, A Student’s Perspective, depicts various impressions of the past year spent as a university student. It aims to visualize the experience of semesters that were drastically shaped by the ongoing circumstances. On the one hand, those can be captured though countable data, such as the number of days classes could not be held on campus, meetings that were prolonged due to technical difficulties, hours spent on Zoom, posted forum questions that remained unanswered, and distances covered on walks. Nesting between these seemingly mundane data points are a few events that appeared suddenly and which rapidly grew into menacing, dark mountains with diffuse borders that began to overshadow the remaining image.
By addressing personal events, the installation invites observers to pause for a moment and enter a dialog about rarely colorful, but nevertheless meaningful, perspectives.
Credits
JKU Robopsychology Lab, Johannes Traun, Paula Peters
