Mae Lubetkin | Ocean Datasets for Investigations and Storytelling
Are you interested in exploring the depths of ocean data? Join our online “Exposing the Invisible” talks focused on methods, cases and resources for investigating, and for revealing the unseen or under-reported dynamics of the Ocean. Our guest experts will reveal their tactics, tools and challenges of working in these areas, providing practical insight and ethical considerations for investigators and researchers.
About the Session
This session will focus on how to identify and use Ocean datasets as a tool for revealing the unseen or underreported dynamics of the world’s most significant bodies of water.
For investigative research and impactful storytelling, oceanographic datasets can be an essential resource for journalists, activists, artists, and anyone interested in data-driven approaches to understanding the ocean. These datasets can help communicate issues such as the climate crisis, environmental change, natural disasters, extractivism, and ocean justice. From bathymetric maps, subsea imagery, and 3D habitat models to satellite-derived observations and in situ real-time monitoring data, a vast range of oceanographic media and datasets is publicly available. Participants will gain an overview of the different types of ocean datasets available, the institutional and historical contexts that shape their production, and practical strategies for collaborating with ocean scientists and working with ocean data in investigative research and storytelling.
About the Speaker
Mae Lubetkin is an ocean scientist, transmedia artist and writer based in Paris and at sea. Their practice-led research remaps relations to bodies of water and digital worlds through investigation, counter-narrative, and memory. With a background in marine geology and subsea imaging, their artistic practice is in dialogue with Science while situated in queer, intersectional, anti-extractivist, and decolonial frameworks. Mae is the art and research lead for a new deep-ocean video game - installation project with the Interactive Media Foundation. They were recently a researcher or artist at Le Cabaoui, TBA21, and Inspirační Fórum Lab. Mae has sailed as Science Manager for over 30 expeditions with the Ocean Exploration Trust and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Their perspectives emerge through collective dialogue and shared moments across waters and depths.
About Us
This event is hosted by Tactical Tech as part of the *Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI). Tactical Tech is an international non-profit organisation that engages with citizens and civil-society organisations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. Exposing the Invisible is a Tactical Tech project that develops resources, training and collaborations promoting investigation as one of the most important forms of public engagement.
Credits and Licensing
This Talk Series is produced by Jasmine Erkan and Laura Ranca from Tactical Tech's Exposing the Invisible project.
Video Editing: Sam Harper
Music: Theatre Of Delays - bensound.com (License Code: PYBHYXFYD9EQ4FKU)
This event is part of the CIJI project co-funded by the European Union.
Disclaimer:
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.