DARK DATA [electronic resource].

EFA Project Space Dylan Gauthier 2021

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Dark Data presents the work of six artists who explore pervasive forms of data collection, mass-surveillance, and hypervisibility visited upon Black life through technologies of predictive policing, data-mining, algorithmic violence, and artificial intelligence. The project situates these emergent data technologies within a broader lineage of anti-Black surveillance and quantification. Dark Data highlights a host of artistic and social tactics exercised by Black practitioners to actively respond to these conditions through experimental archival strategies, inventive modes of technological encryption, and gestures of digital worldmaking. The term “dark data” refers to information assets that are collected and stored by corporations and governments but which ultimately go unutilized due to constraints of storage or the expiration of the data’s relevance. While temporarily sourced and captured, these vast reserves of information are eventually purged, never to be monetized, analyzed, and assimilated into systems of control and profit. This exhibition explores the continuities between “dark data” and Black data, the latter defined by scholar Shaka McGlotten as the forms of data collection and quantification which, or pertain, to Black bodies, citizens, and consumers for the purposes of commercial profit and social control. Dark Data invites viewers to consider current technological efforts to quantify Black life alongside a broader lineage of Black surveillance and racial capitalism. A trajectory that extends from the middle passage, in which the Black body was quantified as a unit of value, to our contemporary moment, in which the Black consumer is figured alternatively as revenue streams with consumer profiles, vectors of risk in algorithmic systems of control, and data points within predictive policing programs. This exhibition proposes dark data as both a method for imaging and imagining forms of technological opacity, digital encryption, and online illegibility whi
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Algorithms
Artificial intelligence
Data mining
Electronic surveillance
Racism
Electronic surveillance in art

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American Artist
Hannah Black
Stephanie Dinkins
E. Jane
Mimi Ọnụọha
Sondra Perry
Gee Wesley
Bianca Dominguez
Mae Miller
Unyimeabasi Udoh
Dylan Gauthier
Yann Chashanovski