Faces between numbers: re-imagining theatre and performance as instruments of critical data studies within a liberal arts education

Abstract

ABSTRACTAs information literacy and data-driven program evaluations have become growing obsessions within academic institutions, how might liberal arts and humanities programmes engage students in both critical and creative explorations of contemporary human-data relations? Inspired by the variety of metaphors that currently shape human-data relations and an analysis of two recent theatre productions that employ data as dramaturgical material, this essay offers a speculative model for such classroom-based explorations.