Autographic Design

The Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World

Dietmar Offenhuber

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MIT Press
16 January 2024

Art & design styles: Arts & Crafts style; Media studies; Information visualisation

Series: metaLAB Projects

An ambitious vision for design based on the premise that data is material, not abstract.

An ambitious vision for design based on the premise that data is material, not abstract.

Data analysis and visualization are crucial tools in today's society, and digital representations have steadily become the default. Yet, more and more often, we find that citizen scientists, environmental activists, and forensic amateurs are using analog methods to present evidence of pollution, climate change, and the spread of disinformation. In this illuminating book, Dietmar Offenhuber presents a model for these practices, a model to make data generation accountable- autographic design.

Autographic refers to the notion that every event inscribes itself in countless ways. Think of a sundial, for example-a perfectly autographic device that displays information on itself. Inspired by such post-digital practices of visualization and evidence construction, Offenhuber describes an approach to visualization based on the premise that data is a material entity rather than an abstract representation. Emerson wrote, ""Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face."" In Autographic Design, Offenhuber introduces a model for design that emphasizes traces, imprints, and self-inscriptions, turning them into sensory displays.

In an age where misinformation is harder and harder to identify, Autographic Design makes an urgent and persuasive case for a different approach that calls attention to the production of data and its connection to the material world.

By: Dietmar Offenhuber
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 471g
ISBN: 9780262547024
ISBN 10: 0262547023
Series: metaLAB Projects
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 16 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introducing Autography 1 1 Traces and Modes of Trace-Making 27 2 Autographic Design Operations 49 3 Found Traces 67 4 Instrumentation--Tracing Atmospheres 93 5 Making Traces and Constructing Evidence 123 6 Autographic Environments 155 7 Signals 179 8 Conclusion: notes on Designing Autographics 201 Acknowledgments 213 Notes 215 Bibliography 241 Index 267

Dietmar Offenhuber is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University, with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. He is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard metaLAB and was recently a fellow at the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. He is the author of the award-winning Waste Is Information (MIT Press).