Collisions: Culture and Medium
Designed at and hosted by metaLAB at Harvard.



Which culture represented in the Harvard Art Museum’s collections favor watercolor on paper as a medium of expression? With this tool, museum curators and scholars can collide two qualities, such as medium and culture, to generate illustrative, partitioned volumes which help them better quantify intersections and overlaps within their collections.
This project is part of a collection of interactive visualization tools which help people make arguments about art collections. It was built for a “satellite” version of the Curarium platform. The text was written by scholar Matthew Battles.
This project is part of a collection of interactive visualization tools which help people make arguments about art collections. It was built for a “satellite” version of the Curarium platform. The text was written by scholar Matthew Battles.
interactive visualization
information design
explorative researchinformation design