Son-Mat: A Hand-Taste Journey into Fermentation and Data Representations
When dining on pizza or burgers with my French friends, I often preamble with, “Before we dig into this pizza, I want to warn you that I'm a hands-on eater.”...
Wind Chimes: autographic sonifications
I have many fascinations in life, and many in data. One is broadly representing data through the senses (surprise surprise) and the other is autographic data...
Human Synthesizer: Reinforcing data with our bodies
It's been a while! Jordan and I have been busy with life and fun workshops that we have been facilitating. If I had to play favorites, I'd choose the Human...
Be a part of the Human Synthesizer!
Last time I talked about our Sensory Sketching Workshop and focused primarily on smell, a sense that I am fascinated and puzzled by. I won’t say that I came...
Metaphors of sensory experience
In the last newsletter, I introduced the Sensory Sketching Workshop that Jordan and I led for CHI2022, where our frustration with the lack of vocabulary to...
Sensory Sketching Workshop: Language as an obstacle
What happens when you organize a workshop with academics in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)? 🤯 and over-dosing on inspiration — aka our workshop at the CHI...
Scrolling through data
This issue is a continuation of the last, where we dove into learnings from our four days of data collection on our sensory experiences during meals. Phase...
Finding our focus in an infinite data landscape
How was the last exercise? Any attempts? Here’s the gist: we took four days of data on our sensory experiences during meals. Although we tend to associate...
You got a lot on your palate
Hi readers, I'm Max (and sometimes Jordan).You're getting this email because you signed up for this newsletter, but you can unsubscribe anytime and I promise...
First in Foundations
When Jordan Wirfs-Brock and I started exploring multi-sensory data representations earlier this year (i.e. using the 5 senses to encode data), we revisited...