Counter-Archives in Digital Spaces

An interactive website that explores history and visual literacy using a group of problematic digitized objects from the NYPL as the basis to form new perspectives and alternative narratives around questions of absence, visibility, representation, human value, and other provocations. Artistic, experimental, and ludic strategies are used in this interface design, suggesting how archives can be seen through new lenses. Read More

Duke’s Cigarette Cards
Coins of All Nations, 1889

Case Study #1: Curation

Case Study #1: Curation

The blur as a visual strategy obscures, corrupts, and masks the racial implications and stereotypes of the caricatures in the cigarette cards.

Duke’s Cigarette Cards
Coins of All Nations, 1889

Case Study #2: Erasure

Case Study #2: Erasure

What is revealed through the act of erasure and concealment? This case study holistically examines the act of seeing, the consequences of removal, and the influence of color.

Duke’s Cigarette Cards
Coins of All Nations, 1889

Case Study #3: Magnification

Case Study #3: Magnification

The pixelation is an intentional glitch, an act of deformance that signals the effects of digitization in readability and legibility.