Dorsey Kaufmann is an award-winning artist who lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.
— About
Dorsey Kaufmann is a multimedia artist, designer, and researcher who creates participatory art installations and interactive data experiences. Employing digital design, data visualization, code, sculpture, video, and technology; her work translates raw data into embodied experiences that can be seen, heard, and felt. The datasets she communicates typically have an intimate and personal aspect – concerning people’s health, homes, community, local environment, and body politics. Kaufmann’s research further examines the use of visualization as a creative medium to increase data literacy and shape human cognition, attitudes and behaviour in relation to the natural environment.
Dorsey has received numerous awards for her artwork, including the 2023 Information is Beautiful Gold Award Winner, the French National Center’s Interdisciplinary and Global Environmental Studies Award, the 2022 Lumen Prize for Art and Technology Shortlist, ArtConnect’s 2021 Artist to Watch, the University of Arizona School of Art’s Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Award, and three-time recipient of the UA College of Fine Art’s Medici Scholar Award. She has worked with the World Bank, the Mellon Foundation, New York State’s Energy Research and Development Authority, and the National Science Foundation.
Her work has been featured on Rolling Stone France and shown nationally and internationally at Inspace Gallery in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Harpa Kaldalón in Reykjavik, Iceland; Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the 2022 Venice Bienniale at the Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa in Italy; Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) Brown Center; Biosphere 2, Arizona; Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center; Inscape Arts in Seattle, Washington; and for the College Art Association in New York and Los Angeles. She has published in Nature, ACM’s Journal of Creativity and Cognition, the International Journal of Science Education, Frontiers, the Journal of Risk Research, and Conjuncture - the Whitney Museum of American Art 2020 ISP Publication.
She received her MFA from the University of Arizona School of Art and currently lectures at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Design Informatics and Edinburgh Futures Institute.
