# Jakob MX002

Working with 1-bit data has put a perspective on how digital information is always based on physical interaction. The flip-flop’s and the logic gates were, in our workshop, very janky and big. Of course it is not like that in the computer on witch I am writing this - but It is still bits that make it possible. Data cannot exist without materiality, even though how abstract it may seem, somewhere at bits are being controlled physically at every process of computing. Dornish’ argues that this specific way we view data matters:“I argue that the material arrangements of information—how it is represented and how that shapes how it can be put to work—matters significantly for our experience of information and information systems.” The fact that bits are made the way they are, matters as much to the digital world as atoms matter to our world. We can as users learn a great deal if we physically interact with our data. A notion which Lupton describes as becoming-with data. She writes: “[…]the researcher is sensitised to the different embodied ways in which she interacts with and makes sense of her data.” And “The researcher’s previous embodied and affective experiences contribute to her decisions about which data to select and how to configure data narratives so that they make sense to her and her audiences.”. If we are not aware of the physically dimension of our data, it may influence how we work with the data and how we present it to others. The workshop was a great tool to understand the specifics of how a bit functions and we could hopefully try to transfer that knowledge into how we process data in the future. Even though our group could not get our component to work …