Through the Eyes of Data

Workshop at Grimme Forschungskongress

The topic of this year’s Grimme Research Congress is the quality of media. The track “calculated” takes this topic to education, with a focus on big data and algorithms. I have been working on developing a new cultural education format for the Algorithmic Literacy Lab* (Art University Cologne), with the working title “Through the Eyes of Data”, which will be put on a first test with the participants of the congress.

The Algorithmic Literacy Lab* is a space for transdisciplinary collaboration and didactic invention in the context of post-digital educational practice. Artists, educators, and scientists work together on educational materials on Algorithmic Decision Making (ADM) and, respectively, on more general questions concerning digital literacy. https://kunst.uni-koeln.de/algorithmic-literacy-lab/

After testing in the field, the workshop material will be published via Workbook Arts Education (myow.org), a participatory platform by the University of Cologne, collecting ideas and sharing impulses for arts education, and be freely available.