‘Mixed-tape Methods’ for Data in Post-digital Times of Disease

In 2020, our teaching and research moved almost exclusively online. Zoom was a must have tool for communication. The shift online has impacted our academic, research, and teaching practices. But can the data traces generated by this shift be leveraged to understand and enhance how we work in and for education? We propose that, as knowledge makers, relational feedback loops and ‘mixed-tape methods’ can create new ways for do-ing, be-ing and know-ing from one data site to another. Doing research during a time of disruption using an iterative approach allows us to adapt the methods as our work and life circumstances changed in response to the pandemic, throughout the uncertainties of life in lockdown we collaboratively co-designed our work. The work of co-designing feedback loops in partnership highlight how the digital enables experience and engagement that generates new experiences and engagements, enabling us to establish new ways of exploring new possibilities with/in. The uncertain unknowns of a covid-normal arts sector means that co-designed arts education gives some solid ground for teachers and learners to create and navigate their future paths. We will present and perform the effects of these experiences and engagements on artists and the arts community in a pandemic and explore the affects of these experiences and engagements for education. We acknowledge that we live and work on the lands of the Wurundjeri people that hold stories across time and space. #Datacreativities is a co-lab of interdisciplinary digital research cross faculty partnership, we examine #datacreative using feedback loops