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Kate Elswit

@somethingmodern.bsky.social

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I work with archives + bodies + technology. Professor of Performance and Technology; Head of Digital Research; Co-Director, Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ). Also Moving Data. www.kateelswit.org

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Our essay "If the Archive Can't Consent: Reimagining Motion Data and AI Ethics for Dance's Embodied Histories" is out in the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society! Available open access from doi.org/10.1017/cfc....

Screen grab of article title, authors, and abstract.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Things that make me happy today: our Radical Accounting series from the Edges of Ailey exhibit was longlisted for the Information is Beautiful Awards. The showcase links to @whitney.org's site where the time-based interventions are now archived www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/761...

Photograph of two large screens with white backgrounds hung in a large red-painted gallery with scattered visitors, with a banner below reading "our work has been longlisted!"

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

It’s been over three months since Edges of Ailey opened at @whitney.org (one month left!) and I’m still in awe every time I see folks take the time to truly watch our visualizations.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Whitney Museum’s Edges of Ailey exhibition catalogue made the New York Times Holiday Gift Guide! It’s gold and has a centerfold specially made for our vizzes.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

The Edges of Ailey exhibit is now open at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Come for a gorgeous show that riffs on the aesthetics of Alvin Ailey. Stay for the Radical Accounting series of dance data visualisations. So proud of our team!

Three people look at data visualisations in a gallery; wall text for the Radical Accounting series; proud researchers dressed up for an opening.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

New blog: An expansive understanding of motion data rooted in bodily archives can offer a fuller understanding of the past while also demanding that we sit with the ethical problems that arise when data is seemingly detachable from its human sources. visceralhistories.wordpress.com/2024/08/27/e...

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Current work hotel room in Cologne is a turret, which is delightful.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

New blog post on the technical challenges Visceral Histories postdoc Nicola is finding while surfacing motion data from historical dance footage. This connects to our questions around embodied archives, consent, racialized data, and AI visceralhistories.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/3...

Output of movement data extracted using MoveNet. Archival footage is Dunham Technique: Fall and recovery with body roll. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200003854/. Rachel Tavernier, teacher; demonstrated by Yasmine Lee with Adrienne Armstrong, Corey Baker, Yasmine Lee, Samuel Gerard LeSane, Nicole Chantal de Weever, and Keith Tyrone Williams. Mor Thiam and William Cepeda, drummers. Recorded in New York in October 2001.

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