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This interactive web artwork transforms personal movement and text into ethereal “data shadows” that embrace and subvert AI’s methods of abstraction. As participants contribute their expressions, these ghostly traces accumulate into an evolving zone of deliberate unreadability. In an environment of increasing AI engagement, these gentle and persistent actions and human ways of engaging with...https://websites.emerson.edu/data-fluencies/wp-content/uploads/sites/65/2025/06/P1010437-scaled.jpeg25601437