Please join us for drinks and nibbles at the private view of the 2020 art exhibition from the Open Data Institute (ODI), Copy That? Surplus Data in an Age of Repetitive Duplication. The exhibition will be unveiled in the company’s Shoreditch offices on Tuesday 4 February 2020.
The evening kicks off with an in-conversation to celebrate the publication of Art Hack Practice: Critical Intersections of Art, Innovation and the Maker Movement, edited by Victoria Bradbury and Suzy O’Hara, which features a chapter on Data as Culture.
Copy That? is open to the public by appointment from February 5 – June 30 2020, Monday – Friday, 10 am – 17.00. To book your visit email dac@theodi.org
Schedule
5.45 – 6.30 Art Hack Practice in conversation
6.30 – 9pm Exhibition preview
Speeches at 7pm
About Copy That?
How ‘true’ is the data ‘you’? Copy That? is the Data as Culture research and partnership theme for 2019-2020. From the myth of the perfect digital copy to the benefits and pitfalls of simulation, Copy That? raises questions about the purpose and trustworthiness of incessantly reproduced data. Newly commissioned artworks on display are: a hot-pink ‘puppet-robot-hybrid’ who wants to chat, Google mis-translated versions of William Blake’s poem Jerusalem, poems drawing on histories of human relationship alongside the blur and noise of technical evolutions and a digital pinball machine offering a neurodiverse experience of the city. Artists are Mr Gee, Alistair Gentry and Ben Neale, Edie Jo Murray & Harmeet Chagger-Khan. Further information at theodi2022.wpengine.com/culture
Curated by Hannah Redler Hawes, Julie Freeman and Anna Scott. Design by Philpott Design.
Copy That? is open to the public by appointment from February 5 – June 30 2020, Monday – Friday, 10 am – 17.00. To book your visit email dac@theodi.org
About Art Hack Practice in conversation panel
In Art Hack Practice: Critical Intersections of Art, Innovation and the Maker Movement, editors Bradbury and O’Hara have brought together twenty-six international authors who situate artists working within, alongside and parallel to maker culture at the front and centre, rather than on the fringe of serious art, design and innovation practices. This panel will explore the ways in which artists and curators explore tensions between territories, disciplines and sectors by brokering new ways of working between them.
The panel will be facilitated by Dr. Suzy O’ Hara. Participants are: Hannah Redler-Hawes (ODI), Marc Garett (Furtherfield), Inini Papadimitriou (FutureEverything)
Image credits: Doxbox trustbot by Alistair Gentry, Mood Pinball by Ben Neal, Bring Me My Firetruck by Mr Gee
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