Exciting news! Several Center for Transformative Media faculty were awarded CAMD’s Creative Catalyst Phase 2 seed grants.

Congratulations to all the selected teams; these projects truly exemplify the program’s mission to bridge disciplines and push the boundaries of traditional research paradigms.

Our community’s projects include:

• From Data Tracking to Data Crafting — Using data crafting to engage Type 1 Diabetes patients with their personal data, transforming the relationships between diabetics and their datasets to improve self-awareness, individual autonomy, and long-term health outcomes, while emphasizing “alert fatigue” as a key challenge. Featuring core faculty Laura Forlano, Ph.D.

• When Speaking Is Dangerous — This project examines when and how algorithmic literacy enables misinformation response, particularly among marginalized communities, by synthesizing communication, human-computer interaction, algorithmic visibility, folk theories, and social justice design. Featuring core faculty Michael Ann DeVito

• Challenging Inequality by Mapping Grassroots Creative Technological Practices — This project will develop and deploy an online tool to map creative technological practices in low-income communities, taking a strengths-based approach to document bottom-up tech innovation and promote cross-fertilization between communities. Featuring director Adriana de Souza e Silva & core faculty Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga

• CAMD Data Ark — Developing a humanities-driven provenance framework for AI training datasets to ultimately create an infrastructure that makes the origins of training data legible — serving art historians, cultural organizations, and archival researchers across art history, digital humanities, AI ethics, and network science. Featuring core faculty Derek Curry, Jennifer Gradecki, and Sylke Rene Meyer