About
— About
Dorsey Kaufmann is an award-winning multimedia artist and lecturer who creates interactive art installations and participatory data experiences. Employing digital design, data visualization, code, sculpture, video, and technology; her work translates raw data into embodied experiences that can be seen, heard, and felt. The datasets she communicates typically have an intimate and personal aspect – concerning people’s health, homes, community, local environment, and body politics. Kaufmann’s research further examines the use of visualization as a creative medium to increase data literacy and shape human cognition, attitudes and behaviour in relation to the natural environment.
Dorsey has received numerous awards for her artwork, including the Information is Beautiful Gold Award Winner, the Center for Data, Culture, and Society’s Digital Research Prize, the French National Center’s Interdisciplinary and Global Environmental Studies Award, the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology Shortlist, ArtConnect’s Artist to Watch, and the University of Arizona School of Art’s Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Award. In 2024, she launched her visualization studio, Feeling Data.
Her work has been featured on Rolling Stone France and shown nationally and internationally at the 2022 Venice Bienniale at the Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa in Italy; Harpa Kaldalón in Reykjavik, Iceland; Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Inspace Gallery in the University of Edinburgh; Hidden Door Arts Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland; Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) Brown Center; Biosphere 2, Arizona; Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center; Inscape Arts in Seattle, Washington; and for the College Art Association in New York and Los Angeles. She has published in Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2020 ISP Publication, ACM’s Journal of Creativity and Cognition, ACM’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the International Journal of Science Education, Frontiers, Eurovis, and more.
She received her MFA from the University of Arizona School of Art and currently lectures at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Design Informatics and Edinburgh Futures Institute.
