The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies is a ground-breaking project that brings together both eminent and emerging artists and designers to show how creative applications of data technology are crucial for a vital, inclusive and sustainable future.
Managing and presenting data are central concerns in our contemporary lives. The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies presents works by artists and designers that are at the forefront of contemporary practice, whose practices focus on some of the pressing issues of our time – climate change, inclusion of Indigenous cultural knowledges, future city design, and data privacy. In an era of data intensification, bringing these works together facilitates a critical and timely focus gives new insights into data, and highlights its potential manifestations and application in our everyday lives.
Artists: Robert Andrew; Yulia Brazauskayte; Silvio Carta; Andrew T Gall; William Gaver and Interaction Research Studio; Benedikt Groß, Stephan Bogner, Herwig Scherabon and move lab; Lola Greeno; Geoff Hinchcliffe; Luke Jaaniste; Jenna Lee; Ian McArthur; Joana Moll; Stanislava Pinchuk (Miso); Patrick Pound; Aidan Rowlingson; Judy Watson; Warraba Weatherall; Tali Weinberg; and Mitchell Whitelaw
Curatorium: Katherine Moline, Angela Goddard, Blaklash Creative (Troy Casey and Amanda Hayman), and Beck Davis.
Image: Lola Greeno, Ceremonial green maireener shell necklace, 2018. 180cm long.Private collection, Sydney. Photo: Carl Warner.
