"Light Echoes: digitising hand-drawn traces left by women who mapped the Southern Hemisphere for the Astrographic Catalogue"

I will discuss my research fellowship at the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (MAAS) that explores the role of women in the production of the Astrographic Catalogue. This practice-based research translates hand-written logbooks of astronomy data into virtual space to create an augmented reality artwork where the women’s signatures appear in a virtual star chart of the sky they mapped.