Data Set of Screams is a dataset that emerged from the artistic research project COUNTING FEELINGS by MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr). The project explores the question of what data can mean for trans and autistic people.
In the winter of 2024, a group of disabled, trans, queer, neurodivergent people and allies came together in Cologne to scream into a dataset. The focus was on screams as a form of resistance and on creating a shared dataset. This took place as a trauma-specific practice in which grief, anger, and mistrust were allowed to surface.
The dataset is now accessible via an interactive website. By clicking on the colored bubbles, individual screams can be accessed, each accompanied by a poetic description. You can find the website here:
Counting Feelings – A Data Set of Screams
More information about the project “Counting Feelings”, as well as two podcast episodes, can be found here:
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | Counting Feelings &
Behind The Screens | Behind The Scenes, Episode 19 | A Data Set of Screams

MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr) research and experiment with shape-shifting processes where technologies, sensory media, and critical pedagogy meet in a warming world. MELT are currently developing projects along four different research strands: ACCESS SERVER, The Meltionary, COUNTING FEELINGS, and Zeitgeber.
They simmer practices of making and artistic research that generate material and infrastructural transformations, bubbling with transfeminisms and disability justice. Working with change and processes of melting in a kaleidoscopic form, multiple themes are addressed simultaneously: climate change, the potential for political re-articulations, critical technical practice, and the creation of access.
MELT share their work through videos, installations, websites, lectures, and workshops.
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