Program
The VISAP 2026 programme brings together artists, designers, and researchers exploring creative, critical, and experimental approaches to data visualisation through paper and pictorial presentations. The sessions will take place on Wednesday, November 11, from 08:00 to 14:30 (US/Eastern), in Hall St. George A–B at The Westin Copley Place, Boston. Alongside the presentations, the VISAP 2026 exhibition, Amplification, will open on November 11 at 19:00 (US/Eastern) at the MIT Met Warehouse in Cambridge, featuring a keynote by Richard The. The exhibition will remain open through November 13, alongside IEEE VIS 2026. Explore the contributions to discover the papers, pictorials, and artworks featured in this year's edition.
PAPER SESSION 1
Making Data Tangible: Materiality, Space, and Public Life
This session brings together data sculptures, participatory performance, spatial inequality, tapestries, and urban soundscapes. The common thread is how data becomes a physical, spatial, or collective experience.
08:36 - 08:48
RECIPROCAL PARAMETRIC DESIGN FOR MULTIMODAL VISUALIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF THE RAP TAPESTRY
08:48 - 09:00
STREET SCORES: COMPOSING THE SOCIAL LIFE OF PUBLIC SPACE
PAPER SESSION 2
Reimagining Archives: AI, Performance, and Cultural Memory
The papers examine how AI, artistic performance, and computational methods transform archival material, cultural collections, text, and representation. They also raise questions about institutional power and visibility.
10:00 - 10:12
PLAYING THE ARCHIVE: AUDIOVISUAL LATENT SPACE EXPLORATION WITH THE OCULAR HARPSICHORD 2.0
10:12 - 10:24
PEELING CYCLE: PERFORMATIVE VISUALIZATION OF SYNTHETIC DATAFICATION IN LIVE AI PERFORMANCE
10:36 - 10:48
META-ACERVOS: AI, METADATA, AND THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY IN BRAZILIAN MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
PICTORIAL SESSION
Beyond the Visual: Materiality, Memory, and Identity
This session explores data through tactile forms, geological memory, language, sound, and identity. The contributions challenge conventional visualization by expanding the sensory and cultural dimensions of data.
Pictorial session: Beyond the Visual: Materiality, Memory, and Identity
Hall St. George A–B, The Westin Copley Place, Boston
Wednesday, Nov 11 @ 13:00 - 14:30 (US/Eastern)
This session explores data through tactile forms, geological memory, language, sound, and identity. The contributions challenge conventional visualization by expanding the sensory and cultural dimensions of data.
13:00 - 13:12
PROTEUS
13:12 - 13:24
ICE ARCHIVES: AMPLIFYING GREENLAND'S GEOLOGIC MEMORY
13:36 - 13:48