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What Social Media Tells Us About the Venice Architecture Biennale
‘Elements of Architecture’ at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale (all images via La Biennale on Facebook) How do you determine the success of an exhibition — by the number of visitors, the tenor of...
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Personal Data Surveillance as Modern Portraiture
Laurie Frick, “Daily Time Slices Dec 15” (2015), laser etched wood blocks and aluminum, 40 x 48 x 2 inches, 21 days of 24 hour time-tracking (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless noted)...
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This Collaged Facebook Parody Needs Your Data
Mark Zuckerberg’s myriad disguises, as illustrated in the Data Drive’s alternate universe (all images courtesy the artist) Welcome to 2016. Mark Zuckerberg has stolen our data, fleeing Facebook’s...
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Fire Up a Wifi Router Hidden Inside a Rock
Aram Bartholl, “Keepalive” (2015) at Springhornhof Neuenkirchen, comissioned by Center of Digital Cultures Leuphana University (all photos courtesy the artist) Unless you notice the little plaque...
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Visualizing the Purrrsonal Data You Share with Your Cat Photos
I Know Where Your Cat Lives (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic) For Owen Mundy, the internet’s love of cats is a gateway to recognizing the huge amounts of personal data we share publicly on...
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Scientists Can Now Store Digital Images in DNA
(image courtesy Luis Ceze/University of Washington) The amount of data in the digital universe — including vast collections of computer files, historic archives, movies, photo collections, and other...
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A New Database Will Document the Burial Sites of US Slaves
Tomb of the Unknown Slave at St. Augustine Church in New Orleans (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) A new project is giving slave burial grounds in the United States something they’ve long...
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life
“Assessed valuation of all taxable property owned by Georgia negroes,” from W. E. B. Du Bois’s ‘The Georgia Negro: A Study’ (1900) (via Library of Congress) For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in...
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Hacker Posts Information of 1M Artsy User Accounts for Sale on Dark Web
A screenshot of the Artsy homepage On Wednesday, February 13, Artsy’s chief technology officer, Daniel Doubrovkine, sent out an email to Artsy account holders to warn them of a “data security incident...
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The Dead May Outnumber the Living on Facebook in 50 Years
Calvary Cemetery in Queens, looking to Manhattan (photo by Allison Meier/Hyperallergic) When someone dies, what happens to their social media profiles? According to academics at Oxford University,...
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How Risky Is Visiting a Museum? This Graphic About COVID-19 Transmission...
First published Texas Medical Association (2020) (reprinted with permission) As anyone without their head in the sand knows that coronavirus numbers are skyrocketing (especially in states that pushed...
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Artists Reflect on the Harms of Data Collection
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...
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