ABSTRACT
The pervasiveness of ocularcentrism means cultural practices subsumed by ocularcentric methods of meaning-making often do not realize that this is but one of many ways to construct and engage in knowledge. The power of somatic practices in computational spaces. It teaches us how to relate highly abstract concepts such as real-time data, numerical representations of sensor data, and algorithmic design to our multisensory, human experience. Historically, the use of visual mediums such as writing have been the most prevalent form of data representation for record keeping in Western practices. Similarly highly abstract programming languages made up of computational code represented as alphanumeric symbols. The metaphor helped us imagine the project as a “giving back” of data to people in a form that is rooted in embodied knowledge. Humanist scholarship, despite efforts to speak in and through the body, rarely acknowledge dance as a site of embodied knowledge.
