Data in the 21st Century
V2_ Institute For The Unstable Media, Zuid-Holland, Rotterdam, 12/19/2015 - 02/14/2015
Eendrachtsstraat 10 Rotterdam, NL
APT artist Martin John Callanan is participating the exhibition "Data in the 21st Century" with his work "I Cannot Not Communicate".
The exhibition explores the friction between the unpredictable reality that we live in and the desire to capture it in data.
Data in the 21st Century: The capitalist belief that profit-seeking is the best way to manage and develop societies has sparked an unprecedented desire to abstract and quantify everything into data. In the pursuit of economic efficiency, data is money, data is power, data is everything and everything is data. Yet data is contingent on a world that is messy, irrational, unstable, and emotional. The rise of so-called big data and the emergence of technologies that are able to quantify our every move, preference and behaviour, have demonstrated where the friction lies between the unpredictable reality that we live in and the desire to capture it in data. The public program Data in the 21st Century will explore how this friction has changed and shaped our relationship to data and seeks to discuss how this relationship will develop in the future.
Featured Artists
Kyle McDonald
Daniel Goddemeyer, Moritz Stefaner,
Dominikus Baur & Lev Manovich
Martin John Callanan
Timo Arnall
Informal Strategies
PWR Studio
Lane/You/Debackere
Max Dovey & Manetta Berends
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