Arduino Sketch for Black Ribbon for Mourning
The vibration motor pulses in 1 second intervals; each pulse represents one black person killed by the police in 2016. The data comes from Mapping Police Violence.org.
Out of deference to the creators of the dataset, we make no distinction between the killing of those who are "unarmed" and whose who are "allegedly armed."
One day is 39.3 seconds
Code by Kim Brillante Knight, in collaboration with Jessica C Murphy and Dale MacDonald. Fashioning Circuits; Feminist MakerSpace; SP&CE MediaLab; Emerging Gizmology Lab UT Dallas
Prototype pepared for the HASTAC 2017 Conference exhibition, "The Wearable and Tangible Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities." Orlando, FL Nov 2 - 4, 2017.