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Visualizing
the Virus

Visualizing the Virus is an international digital project that showcases and investigates the diverse ways in which SARS-Cov2 and the COVID-19 pandemic is visualized and the inequalities it makes visible.

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What COVID-19 gave us: Citizen agency in East Africa
by Wambui Wamunyu

Covid: Vulnerabilities and Possibilities

by Oby Obyerodhyambo

Satire and COVID-19

by Patrick Gathara

(Mis)trust in technology

by John-Bell Okoye

Building collaborative relations and data

by Angela Okune

Gender and COVID-19

by Aurelia Munene

‘We are all in this together’

by Emmanuel Yegon

What COVID-19 gave us: Citizen agency in East Africa
by Emmanuel Yegon

Discards of COVID-19
by Angeliki Balayannis

On the Viral Politics of Wastewater Epidemiology

by Rachel Vaughn

Waste and the problem of visibility

by UK COVID-19 Waste Project

Coronavirus and Single-Use Plastics

by Tridibesh Dey

Discards of COVID-19
by Tridibesh Dey

Pandemic Dwelling
by Aaron Su

Animal Agribusiness

by Alex Blanchette

Lockdown’s Effects on Incarcerated and Undocumented Lives

by Didier Fassin

Pandemic Dwelling
by Didier Fassin

Picture of a cold frozen window, abstract perspective

White Privilege and COVID-19
by Katherine Blouin, Girish Daswani

by Girish Daswani, Katherine Blouin

by Katherine Blouin, Girish Daswani

White Privilege and COVID-19
by Katherine Blouin, Girish Daswani

painting of amalgamated animals, a chicken mixed with a cheetah and monkey for instance.

Visualising COVID-19 as a Zoonotic Disease
by Christos Lynteris

Illuminating COVID-19’s Origins

by Emmanuelle Roth

Wet Markets, Photography and Pandemic Exegesis

by Christos Lynteris

Frozen Bat and Human Cold Chain

by Frédéric Keck

Phylogenetic Trees and the Genealogical Origins of Zoonotic Viruses

by Lyle Fearnley

Visualising COVID-19 as a Zoonotic Disease
by Lyle Fearnley

cartoon of men protesting against vaccination

Covid Denialism
by Camelia Dewan, Nicholas Loubere

Vaccine Refusal and the Legacies of Corporate Science in the Philippines

by Alyssa Paredes

Preventive Public Health and Airborne Illness

by Trish Greenhalgh

The Political Imagination of US Pandemic Deaths

by Martha Lincoln

There is No Vaccine for Climate Catastrophe

by Nicholas Loubere

Covid-19, Nordic trust and collective denial

by Camelia Dewan

Covid Denialism
by Camelia Dewan

image of hundreds of masked head shots

Can’t Touch This: Covid19 in the Context of Protests in Hong Kong
by Angela Su

by Siu Wai Hang

by Yim Sui Fong

When I look at you now

by Kenji Wong Wai Kin

Can’t Touch This: Covid19 in the Context of Protests in Hong Kong
by Kenji Wong Wai Kin

drawing of a purple molecular circle with yellow stems outside of it

Making the Invisible Visible: Unequal Histories by Sria Chatterjee

Making the Invisible Visible

by Sria Chatterjee

Journalism with a Gender Lens: BehanBox by Bhanupriya Rao, Faiza Masood

Journalism with a Gender Lens

by Bhanupriya Rao, Faiza Masood

Covid in Cartoons: Researching youth experiences of the pandemic through political cartooning by Covid in Cartoons Research Team

Covid in Cartoons

by Covid in Cartoons Research Team

Melancholy as Medium by Jill H. Casid

Melancholy as Medium

by Jill H. Casid

photo of a rickshaw, graffiti mural in the background

Sounding the Virus: COVID-19, the Drug War, and the Silencing of Life in the Philippines by Russell Skelchy

Sounding the Virus

by Russell Skelchy

photo of blurry human figures tanding on a platform, the sea is in the background

Game, boys!: Pinoy Boys Love series imitates middle-class Manila COVID life and dreams of queer love through digital intimacies by Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza

by Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza

photograph of a full moon seen through tree leaves

Corona: Creative Life in Indonesia during the Pandemic by Sri Dwi Wahyuni and Rene T.A. Lysloff, Genie Yoo

Corona: Creative Life in Indonesia during the Pandemic

by Sri Dwi Wahyuni and Rene T.A. Lysloff, Genie Yoo

photograph of the back of a woman stnaidng in front of a wall where several facemasks hang

In Search of Community and Pedagogy: Compiling a Crip COVID-19 Syllabus by Jiya Pandya

In Search of Community and Pedagogy

COVID-19 and Film in Rwanda: Hamwe Festival by Injonge Karangwa

COVID-19 and Film in Rwanda

by Injonge Karangwa

abstract collage

COVID-19 and Art in South Africa: The Voids of Thuli Lubisi’s Apart by Duane Jethro

COVID-19 and Art in South Africa

by Duane Jethro

Pandemic Poetry: The legacy of Black, Indigenous, women of color by Untold Stories of Liberation & Love

Pandemic Poetry

by Untold Stories of Liberation & Love

Sonification of UK Covid Deaths by Jamie Perera

Sonification of UK Covid Deaths

by Jamie Perera

close up picture of a person's hands handling a vaccine vial

Vaccine Distribution through Black Church Networks: A Conversation with Dr. Kia Moore by Ipsita Dey, Kia Moore

Vaccine Distribution through Black Church Networks

by Ipsita Dey, Kia Moore

bird's eye view of a woman cleaning a living room, she is crouching on the floor with a mop, other cleaning equipment is visible on a table

Gestures of Domestic Memories: A Performative Way-of-Knowing by Aída Herrera Peña

Gestures of Domestic Memories

by Aída Herrera Peña

anime-style image of a health worker wearing protetive goggles and mask

COVID-19 Propaganda in China by Margaret Siu

COVID-19 Propaganda in China

by Margaret Siu

image of a poster of Facundo Scalzo, a woman is standing in front of the poster

The Confluence of Institutional Violence and Structural Poverty: in Low-Income Neighborhoods of Argentina by Silvia Hirsch, Andrea Mastrangelo

The Confluence of Institutional Violence and Structural Poverty

by Silvia Hirsch, Andrea Mastrangelo

black and white image of a derelict building and what looks like sick people sitting on the floor

COVID-19 and Wildlife: Marginalised Perspectives and Neglected Trends by Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, Francis Massé

COVID-19 and Wildlife

by Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, Francis Massé

two older women gardening

Human Rights in Care Homes: The Pandemic and Beyond by Victoria Tischler

Human Rights in Care Homes

by Victoria Tischler

Text-based image that reads: "Black Living Data Matter #BLDB"

From Recording Black Death to Celebrating Living Data: Creativity, COVID 19, and Community Care by Faithe J. Day

From Recording Black Death to Celebrating Living Data

by Faithe J. Day

close up image of a person holding a small vaccine bottle and drawing the liquic into a needle

Necropolitics of Vaccine Capitalism by Salla Sariola

Necropolitics of Vaccine Capitalism

by Salla Sariola

Image of an empty train station in Kolkatta

Mass Death and Mortuary Practices in India during COVID-19 by Sohini Chattopadhyay, Isha Tendolkar

Mass Death and Mortuary Practices in India during COVID-19

by Sohini Chattopadhyay, Isha Tendolkar

a group of women standing in front of a painted wall mural depicting two women talking

Living as the “Muslim” Virus in Modi’s India by Shigraf Zahbi

Living as the “Muslim” Virus in Modi’s India

by Shigraf Zahbi

medieval woodprint illustration

Anti-Asian Racism and Epistemic Violence by Xiang Zairong

Anti-Asian Racism and Epistemic Violence

by Xiang Zairong

image of black circle with many small words written in white. The words relate to COVID-19, like injury, death symptom,

Cartography of COVID-19 by Dario Rodighiero, Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Elian Carsenat

Cartography of COVID-19

by Dario Rodighiero, Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Elian Carsenat

Picture of a multicolor (mainly red) truck

Indian Migrant Workers & Lockdown: Trapped in the Intercities by Shigraf Zahbi

Indian Migrant Workers & Lockdown

by Shigraf Zahbi

Modelling the Virus: Tracing the fault-lines of Epistemic Justice in Disease Modelling and Data Visuals by Monika Halkort

Modelling the Virus

by Monika Halkort

colorful illustration of tents and sing with "We are not the virus!" written on top

We Are Not the Virus by Aliya Pabani, Allie Graham

We Are Not the Virus

by Aliya Pabani, Allie Graham

artistic collage with images of human and vegetal parts

Transmission: A series of five Podcasts on Disease and Pandemics in a Distorted World by Ines Doujak, John Barker

by Ines Doujak, John Barker

picture taken of a water tank outside the middle of a village

Communicating COVID-19: Expanded Media Narratives by Wambui Wamunyu

Communicating COVID-19

by Wambui Wamunyu

Colorful drawing of Indian people carrying out different tasks, like riding on a bus, sailing

Mithila Art in 2020: Life, Labor, and COVID-19 in South Asia by Ellen Ambrosone

Mithila Art in 2020

by Ellen Ambrosone

Black and white picture of a woman and a child in the strees of India

Mobilizing the Streets: COVID-19 & Informal Labor in India by Krishnendu Ray, Shalini Sinha

Mobilizing the Streets

by Krishnendu Ray, Shalini Sinha

picture taken of crowd of people siting down outside

COVID-19 in Oceania: Food Security, Resilience, and Community by Sophie Chao, Gregoire Randin

COVID-19 in Oceania

by Sophie Chao, Gregoire Randin

cartoon of young Asian woman with smart phone

Smartphones & the Pandemic: Navigating care, surveillance, and connection in Japan by Laura Haapio-Kirk

Smartphones & the Pandemic

by Laura Haapio-Kirk

purple and pink ribbon

Syndemic Sublime: A SciArtist (re)visualizes SARS by Laura Splan

Syndemic Sublime