promoting greater justice in digital cultures
T he Trace Project is a collaborative, exploratory, creative data visualization/materialization project created by Nikki Stevens, Christiana Rose, and Jacque Wernimont. Jointly supported by Dartmouth’s Neukom Institute and the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster, Trace was initially conceived as an opportunity to understand more about three dimensional data representation. With the outbreak of the COVID pandemic, we’ve had to adjust our original work plan and have been working on developing way
In addition to needing to reimagine how people would interact with Trace , we also felt the need to address our work to the current public health and cultural crisis. Thus, Trace: Imagining COVID on Campus. Using Processing we’ve created a short creative data film in order to imagine how COVID would spread on the Dartmouth campus if this were a normal fall (using last year’s data as our source). This is not an epidemiological simulation, but rather a speculative rendering that is constrained by the nature o