“Archiving Twitter Database & Visualization from Artwork” presented by Young

Symposium:

• ISEA2022: 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Archiving Twitter Database & Visualization from Artwork

• Jiayi Young

Venue(s):

• MACBA – Convent dels Àngels, Barcelona, Spain

• In 2020, I created an artwork on the state of truth-telling crisis during the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. The project is titled Project Echo. It is a multi-modality and multi-disciplinary new media artwork involving Twitter data and took two and a half years of extensive research collaboration with a political scientist and a computer engineer to develop. When the project concluded shortly after the Capitol insurrection, we realized that we had compiled a significant database of Tweets. It has become a valuable historical record of Twitter disinformation activity relating to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As an artist unfamiliar with how archives are established, I am interested in figuring out how to provide public access to the database and its associated visualizations. I look to cultural institutions to help establish an archive of the database and provide the public with the opportunity to access this piece of American History.

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Keywords:

• archiving strategies
• database
• twitter data repository
• 2020 election disinformation
• Social Media

Category:

• Lightning Talk