Beginn des PhD-Programms / Start of the PhD-Program:
WS 2025
Betreuung / Supervision:
Manuela Naveau
With whole societies turned into data by apps and other amenities, with artificial intelligence not only deployed as additional computational power but as information gathering systems, artistic engagement with data transcends mere visualization. By enriching and extending the cultural techniques of data and their model as processes of knowledge production, data-based artworks reconnect informative but mere numerical abstractions with the world we live in.
Through research and implementation of relevant literature, historical contexts, and practical methods, this proposal aims to constitute Data based Art as an emerging art form – using data as its primary artistic material, exploring the potential consequences and dangers of data-driven societies, and offering alternative perspectives and/or questions about our world that traditional sciences cannot provide.
Drawing on my decade long artistic practice, which understands data as means to read and write realities, this project seeks to develop a theoretical framework that encompasses the existing artistic strategies employed by me and other artists working with data and examines how they interrogate the cultural, social, and political implications of data.
Situated within the broader fields of media culture, critical (feminist) theory, and experimental media practices, the concept of Wild Thinking will be elaborated, analysed and tested – inspired by Claude Lévi-Strauss and incorporating ideas such as Latour’s matters of concerns or Barad and Haraways’ notion of diffraction, as well as mechanisms of expanded dimensions, agency, and time-based narration – in order to comprehend and convene the practices of Data-based Art as a curious, critical, and caring medium.