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Unreal Data: talk @ Mine, Yours, Ours #18
The theme of the 18th edition of the Mine, Yours, Ours interdisciplinary festival is Unreal Data, explored through a group exhibition under the curatorial baton of !Mediengruppe Bitnik (from March 30 to April 28, 2023), and a public talk, held on Friday, March 31 2023 at Filodrammatica, Rijeka.
The public talk about unreal data was conceived as an extension of the group exhibition and a space for the exchange of opinions about the way in which our societies are transformed under the influence of automated data collection and processing, and how we as individuals adapt to this situation. The talk was moderated by Davor Mišković, and its participants were members of artist collectives !Mediengruppe Bitnik and RYBN, researcher Felix Stalder, philospoher Srećko Horvat, artist Gordan Savičić, and programmer Marcell Mars.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
The exhibition Unreal Data focuses on how the shift to a data-driven society has necessitated that all the technologies we use essentially become part of the networked surveillance infrastructure. Automated data collection has become an intrinsic component of most technologies. Within this new and still emerging setting, we look at Unreal Data as a means to strategically intervene into data-driven systems. Unreal Data uses the ambiguous quality of data as an opportunity not to describe the world but to strategically producing data to provoke a specific outcome. Thus, Unreal Data is data that has been deliberately created or modified not to conform to the world, but to transform it – the lack of representational quality is not a bug, but a feature. We believe it is exactly this feature which opens spaces for action in a data-driven society where opting out is no longer an option.
In a post-surveillance world where tracking is ubiquitous and opting out is no longer an option, unreal-ing data is a way to playfully interact with algorithmic regimes and to regain some agency and control. The works in the exhibition find ways of doing this.
WORKS PRESENTED BY:
Lauren Lee McCarthy, Jeremy Bailey, Adam Harvey, Tega Brain & Surya Mattu, Simon Weckert, Iodine Dynamics, Mario Santamaría, Telecommuters Working Group
CURATORS:
!Mediengruppe Bitnik
Find out more at http://drugo-more.hr/en/mine-yours-ours-2023/
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By Drugo moreThe theme of the 18th edition of the Mine, Yours, Ours interdisciplinary festival is Unreal Data, explored through a group exhibition under the curatorial baton of !Mediengruppe Bitnik (from March 30 to April 28, 2023), and a public talk, held on Friday, March 31 2023 at Filodrammatica, Rijeka.
The public talk about unreal data was conceived as an extension of the group exhibition and a space for the exchange of opinions about the way in which our societies are transformed under the influence of automated data collection and processing, and how we as individuals adapt to this situation. The talk was moderated by Davor Mišković, and its participants were members of artist collectives !Mediengruppe Bitnik and RYBN, researcher Felix Stalder, philospoher Srećko Horvat, artist Gordan Savičić, and programmer Marcell Mars.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
The exhibition Unreal Data focuses on how the shift to a data-driven society has necessitated that all the technologies we use essentially become part of the networked surveillance infrastructure. Automated data collection has become an intrinsic component of most technologies. Within this new and still emerging setting, we look at Unreal Data as a means to strategically intervene into data-driven systems. Unreal Data uses the ambiguous quality of data as an opportunity not to describe the world but to strategically producing data to provoke a specific outcome. Thus, Unreal Data is data that has been deliberately created or modified not to conform to the world, but to transform it – the lack of representational quality is not a bug, but a feature. We believe it is exactly this feature which opens spaces for action in a data-driven society where opting out is no longer an option.
In a post-surveillance world where tracking is ubiquitous and opting out is no longer an option, unreal-ing data is a way to playfully interact with algorithmic regimes and to regain some agency and control. The works in the exhibition find ways of doing this.
WORKS PRESENTED BY:
Lauren Lee McCarthy, Jeremy Bailey, Adam Harvey, Tega Brain & Surya Mattu, Simon Weckert, Iodine Dynamics, Mario Santamaría, Telecommuters Working Group
CURATORS:
!Mediengruppe Bitnik
Find out more at http://drugo-more.hr/en/mine-yours-ours-2023/