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Artists Reflect on the Harms of Data Collection

by Lynn Trimble May 5, 2022May 5, 2022

For her first museum exhibition, Grace Rosario Perkins invited four other artists to ponder the definition of data, centering questions about how it’s collected, authenticated, documented, and distributed — and by whom.

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How Risky Is Visiting a Museum? This Graphic About COVID-19 Transmission Provides Some Answers

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 9, 2020November 5, 2020

From going to a library or museum, to visiting a concert, the Texas Medical Association created a graphic to assess the scale of risk, on a scale of one to 10.

Posted inIn Brief

The Dead May Outnumber the Living on Facebook in 50 Years

Avatar photo by Zachary Small April 29, 2019May 1, 2019

But what will happen to our personal data when we give up the (digital) ghost? Research from Oxford University suggests a curious change.

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Hacker Posts Information of 1M Artsy User Accounts for Sale on Dark Web

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber February 14, 2019

On February 13, Artsy’s chief technology officer warned account holders of a “data security incident.”

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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 4, 2016July 4, 2016

For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black life.

Posted inArt

A New Database Will Document the Burial Sites of US Slaves

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 10, 2016May 11, 2016

A new project is giving slave burial grounds in the United States something they’ve long been deprived of: visibility.

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Scientists Can Now Store Digital Images in DNA

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne April 11, 2016April 20, 2016

The amount of data in the digital universe — including vast collections of computer files, historic archives, movies, photo collections, and other digital information stored on devices worldwide — is expected to hit 44 trillion gigabytes by 2020.

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Visualizing the Purrrsonal Data You Share with Your Cat Photos

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 9, 2016March 9, 2016

For Owen Mundy, the internet’s love of cats is a gateway to recognizing the huge amounts of personal data we share publicly on social media.

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Fire Up a Wifi Router Hidden Inside a Rock

by Claire Voon August 27, 2015September 1, 2015

Unless you notice the little plaque marking it as art, you might easily miss Aram Bartholl’s newest work, which debuts on Sunday and blends seamlessly into its surroundings in the wilderness of Germany.

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This Collaged Facebook Parody Needs Your Data

by Claire Voon August 4, 2015August 4, 2015

Welcome to 2016. Mark Zuckerberg has stolen our data, fleeing Facebook’s offices in Menlo Park with a mysterious, “charismatic hustler” known as Maurice Carbonneau.

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Personal Data Surveillance as Modern Portraiture

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 22, 2015July 22, 2015

The constant data collection on our lives, from iPhone usage to subway card swipes, transforms through Laurie Frick’s art into portraiture.

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What Social Media Tells Us About the Venice Architecture Biennale

by Laura C. Mallonee December 3, 2014December 2, 2014

How do you determine the success of an exhibition — by the number of visitors, the tenor of their reactions, or some other gauge? That’s the question Maria Novozhilova tackles in her assessment of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, which ended late last month.

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