Summary
HASTAC’s current (October 2024) homepage uses the data physicalization by Claudia Berger and Chris Alen Sula that visualized the network connections across papers, presenters, artists, technologies, and beyond at the HASTAC 2023 conference, “Critical Making and Social Justice,” at Pratt Institute in June 2023.
In choosing an image for our current homepage, Jackie Cahill (Project Manager and Communications Specialist at CUNY), selected the installation by Claudia Berger and Chris Allen Sula that greeted all HASTAC conference goers as we entered the main hall at Pratt Institute for “Critical and Social Justice” in June 2023. The work is a physical “network” showing how the papers at the conference themselves were “networked”–people, ideas, art, technologies, all intersecting in incredibly complex and beautiful ways. In “Crafting Connections: Lessons from Installing a Data Physicalization” (October 3, 2023), in Nightingale: Journal of the Data Visualization Society, they write:
“Each thread represents one work in the conference, its color reflecting format: papers, panels, and roundtables (green); workshops (orange); exhibitions (red); performances (purple); activities (blue); and multiple formats braided with their respective constituent colors. This design reflects some of our earliest thinking of the conference, which is also embodied in the HASTAC 2023 logo.“
Logo design for the conference, based on inspiration from networks and handmade objects. Design by Shubhangi Singh.