Small Data is Beautiful

On Friday 18th & Saturday 19th February 2022 we held our first event for the Australian Cultural Data Engine - a 2 day symposium exploring all things small data.

Taking inspiration from the ‘small is beautiful’ mantra of the 1970s which provoked counter-cultural economic and scientific expertise in the name of planetary survival, the symposium hosted scholars working on computational methods in the arts, humanities and social sciences to discuss their research with ‘small data’.

We heard papers on topics ranging from loneliness, haunted emotions and photovoice through to archiving, cultural value and creative process as climate crisis intervention. You can read the symposium program here.