About Kaylen
Digital Humanities Librarian, Tufts University
Kaylen Dwyer is the Digital Humanities Librarian at Tufts University where she provides support for a wide range of digital humanities projects, including digital exhibits, digital editions, mapping, and multimodal storytelling in research and in the classroom. Kaylen has worked with DH projects in academic and public contexts, including multimodal publications with the Illinois Open Publishing Network, digital documentary editing with the peer-reviewed undergraduate digital humanities journal, SourceLab, and academic and community collaborations through the Public Digital Humanities Institute and Stories for All. Her research focuses on critical making, creative coding, and disability and access.
About Kaylen’s project
Grounding Exercises: Embodied Data and Visceralization of Dissociative Experiences
“Grounding Exercises” is a series of artistic representations and data visceralizations of depersonalization and derealization experiences, defined as feelings of detachment from self or surroundings. These experiences, often linked to trauma or stress, can be challenging to articulate due to their unusual nature and everyday stigma. Online communities like Reddit provide a supportive space for sufferers to connect. Using text analysis and critical making practices, this series of art pieces and installations seeks to translate their shared experiences of detachment into embodied, visceral forms. Data visceralizations will combine visuals, sound, texture, and interactivity, exploring the themes of (dis)embodiment and grounding, emphasizing the community’s collective voice and efforts to reconnect.