Soft Sound Geographies: Textile Maps of Land Body Data Entanglements

Abstract

Craft has a long history of being an embodied and tangible way to explore various forms of data in HCI and design. In this art project, will showcase seven hand embroidered, GIS- and GPS-generated maps which I made over the course of 18 months. These maps are supplemented with a zine-like CD where soundscapes correspond to each map. The maps represent the paths I took over seven days of an autoethnographic bike tour down the Mississippi River. The trip was designed to offer an embodied way to meet with the Mississippi River's posthuman character and explore how the history of floods and land use shape futures with climate change. Translating this experience into embroidered maps led to embodied and closeup views of GIS map layers and lived experience of GPS data via textile and soundscape.

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