EduCon 2026Data as a Generator of Narrative in Visual Art
This conversation will include in-depth discussion of issues and topics that would be generative for data art, as well as a breakdown of the creative process that these students used.
Students began by exploring and interpreting the graphs, choosing a topic of interest, and then planning and sketching. After a teacher review process, they began creating their artwork.
Students began by sketching and writing answers to the following questions: What is the topic of your graph? What conclusions can you make from your graph? What emotions does the information in your graph make you feel? How will the shape of your project reflect its message? How will your materials reflect the message of your project? How will the colors you use reflect your message?
Conversational Practice
During this conversation, participants will put themselves in the students' shoes, choosing from a list of current topics and exploring and discussing data related to those topics. We'll collaborate in small groups, then share out our ideas about how we'd structure the unit, given our own schools' curriculum and yearly themes. We'll also share out what we'd plan to do, if we were the students given this assignment. My hope is that everyone will leave feeling inspired and capable of creating their own work of data art!
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