Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Data art is usually seen as an art form that uses data as material in the same way that sculpting uses stone or clay. This article suggests a different view. Data are never simply “raw material.” Consequently, the expression is better suited to forms of practical critique that problematize data ontologies through a focus on primary data, metadata, and data transposition. By experientializing these areas, the artistic practices under discussion – those of Ọnụọha, Elahi, Fujihata, Miebach and Dewey-Hagborg – shed light on complex data processes, the imbrication of archiving and anarchiving, quantity and quality, materiality and immateriality, and, most importantly, on data’s relation to knowledge.
Author: Natasha Lushetich
Language: English
Topic: Art, Technology, and Culture
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7128949517
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