Data Fluencies: Tributaries
May 29 @ 12:00 pm - July 19 @ 5:00 pm
Free
Featuring artists Lai Yi Ohlsen, Lani Asunción, Jazsalyn, Kristoffer Ørum, Caroline Sinders, and Roopa Vasudevan, with experimental research by the Night School for Data Fluencies, DATA/FFECT, hannah holtzclaw, and Data Fluencies Pedagogies.
The second of three thematically connected shows taking place across North America this spring and summer, this exhibition at Or Gallery investigates art’s potential for reimagining our often narrow understandings of data and machine learning and advocating for the digital futures we want. Using the river tributary as a conceptual starting point, the exhibition invites you to explore how our current understandings of data and technology can become a site for broader, community-centred discussions beyond the academy.
Data Fluencies: Tributaries features the diverse work of six contemporary artists, alongside experimental research supported by the Data Fluencies Project, based out of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University. Together, the artists and researchers featured here offer us ways to (re)consider our relationships with the data that surrounds and drives our everyday lives—and perhaps find new routes to agency once we are able to do so.
The Data Fluencies exhibitions are organized by Roopa Vasudevan, a co-PI on the Data Fluencies Project. Visual identity by PROPS SUPPLY.
Dates & Shows: May 29 – July 19
Open hours Wednesday – Saturday, 12–5 PM
Opening Reception: 29 May, 5 – 8 PM
Public Curatorial Tour: 31 May, 2 PM
Venue: Or Gallery, 236 Pender St East, Vancouver, BC