Tornando visíveis os dados: representações visuais de dados como formas de registro e elaboração sensível

Abstract

The work deals with the use of visual representations of data – diagrams, infographics, data visualizations – as modes of expression that have the power to elaborate, also in the field of sensitivity, experiences in a world with multiple possibilities of recording memories. The technique, approached as the externalization of memory, presents itself as the source of these records, whether in the form of text, image, diagram or technical object. The visual representation of data appears as a way of organizing and elaborating multiple records, which acts together with the human being in their effort to attribute meanings to the world. This perspective is elaborated from Bernard Stiegler's reading of the relationship between technique and human as a relationship between recorded memory and living memory, and from a sociotechnical and Simondonian approach to the agency of the image and the technical object. From this theoretical framework, some transformations in the visual representation of data from modernity to the recent period are analyzed, culminating in the use of visual data representation languages as an expressive medium in artistic proposals in the first decades of the twenty-first century.