Calling artists, performers, creatives, makers, journalists, scientists, researchers, programmers and anyone interested in telling data stories through art. dARTa is a data and art design workshop that brings data geeks and creatives together with the goal of portraying important data in a way that appeals to the public – to touch, hear and feel data that matters.

Date: Tuesday 1 September 2020

Venue: Virtual: Register here: www.sacsc2020.com/

Time: 11:30am

Vibe:

• Data geeks are teamed up with creatives
• Data on topics related to cities is made available
• Teams use the data to inspire a creative output such as art, performing art, film, etc.
• Teams present/perform their output at the end of the week.

See the data that is available here.

INSPIRATION

At the last dARTa event we created a beat using sexual offence crime data from 3 police stations in Durban. You can find this output here.

For more inspiration see the video below and click here, here and here.