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In the piece, “Diabetic Data Art: Numbers Beyond Control,” Samuel Thulin offers an innovative possibility for diabetic people to create Diabetic Data Art (DDA) with their diabetes data. Thulin examines two examples, Doug Kantor and Justus Harris, who use data in relatively normative ways. Thulin, then, identifies two examples, Shimon Attie and Robbie McCauley, who alternatively emphasize lived experience and community responses in their work. Thulin argues that Diabetic Data Art allows artists to focus on their lived experience, which “thickens” data. In an exciting call for diabetics to do “anything else” with their data, Thulin poses polyvocal, multiple ways for creators to engage with bodily difference.
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I have been experimenting with these ideas in my artistic practice, particularly my works Hemo-resonance #1 and Hemo-resonance #2. More information on these artworks at: https://samuelthulin.com/.
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Thulin, S. (2021). Diabetic Data Art: Numbers Beyond Control. In: Frazer, B.C., Walker, H.R. (eds) (Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture. Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83110-3_8
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