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Hannah Redler, Open Data Institute: What's Art Got To Do With It? Data As Culture
- 2. What’s art got to do with it? Data as Culture Hannah Redler, ODI Associate Curator in Residence @hannah_redler @ODIHQ
- 3. Data that anyone can access, use and share Open data is …
- 4. Open data is not just a change in organisations and governments. It reflects a cultural shift to an open society.
- 5. Wikipedia 23,800,000 registered users 34,900,000 pages 125,000 active editors 6th most popular website Source: Wikipedia
- 6. Global SMS– 20,000,000,000 messages/day WhatsApp – 30,000,000,000 messages/day (with 30 engineers) Source: GSMA, WhatsApp via Benedict Evans
- 7. What might this mean for the arts and culture sectors? • Heritage Open Data Challenge with NESTA • Data as Culture art programme
- 8. • ODI and Nesta delivering the Open Data Challenge Series, seven challenges to create products and services using open data for societal good in a sustainable way • Funded by Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) • Seven challenges focused on different sectors and needs, from Crime and Justice to Energy and Environment • Heritage and Culture began in Oct 2014 and the winner was announced in May 2015
- 9. How can we use open data to engage more people, and more diverse people, in UK Heritage and Culture?
- 10. Judging Criteria Innovation Social Impact Open Data Sustainable
- 11. @rabbledays New way for families to contribute to local culture & heritage sites. Builds and improves new bank of open data listing location, opening information and volunteering opportunities at each institution and facilitating family volunteering. @cityradaruk Software as a Service (SaaS) transforming existing audience development methodology, powered by open data, into something more dynamic for daily use by organisations and funders. @deliverculture Help organisations deliver better social outcomes through culture. Speeds up development of fundable projects. Helps grassroots orgs reveal need for their activities using open data. Showcases their portfolio to find partners &funders. Tracks impacts to celebrate success.
- 12. City Radar @cityradaruk City Radar - Software as a Service (SaaS) existing audience development methodology – powered by open data – transformed into something more dynamic, to be used on a aily basis by organisations and funders. https://docs.google.com/a/theodi.org/file/d/0Bz4H8EUXY8UwN196OTBPUUtnRGM/edit
- 15. • Art programme for the Open Data Institute • Established at the inception of ODI • Commissions, exhibitions and partnerships since 2012 • First artists’ residencies 2015 • Planning first major exhibition Data as Culture
- 16. Artists consider the social, ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of evolving data landscapes They offer real-time reflections on networked culture Data as Culture Art Programme
- 17. • What is data? • How does it reflect our lives? • How does it affect our lives? • Is it really immaterial? Data as Culture Art Programme key questions:
- 18. Fabio Lattanzi Antinori The Obelisk, 2012 Acrylic, wood, paint, microcontroller, polymer,instances of crimes against peace found online.
- 19. Ellie Harrison Vending Machine, 2009 Found vending machine, software, RSS feed
- 20. Thomson & Craighead Decorative Newsfeeds, 2004 (ongoing)
- 21. Natasha Caruana Fairytale for Sale, 2011 – 13 202 digital prints, vinyl text piece
- 22. Julie Freeman We Need Us, 2014 Commissioned by the ODI and The Space
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- The question that we agreed upon for heritage and culture was...
- This was the winning finalist - who have received £50,000 seed funding
- As everything becomes data-driven, key question is: not how do we visualise it, but what does it mean? How do we apply equal weight and consideration to architecture of online space as to the built environment? How do we build trust in networked society to explore new forms of knowledge, and more? Information and data are malleable and open to interpretation Data can represent and retell stories, creating new and different contexts Artists consider the social, ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of evolving data landscapes Artists provide uniquely ‘real-time’ reflection on contemporary networked cultures
- As everything becomes data-driven, key question is: not how do we visualise it, but what does it mean? How do we apply equal weight and consideration to architecture of online space as to the built environment? How do we build trust in networked society to explore new forms of knowledge, and more? Information and data are malleable and open to interpretation Data can represent and retell stories, creating new and different contexts Artists consider the social, ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of evolving data landscapes Artists provide uniquely ‘real-time’ reflection on contemporary networked cultures
- kinetic sculpture symbolising a metaphorical exploration of the magical side the visualisation of facts as an attempt to objectify, organise and define reality. By scanning online news websites in real-time, the artwork changes from opaque to transparent, according to the amount of references to the four main crimes against peace as they were codified during the Nuremberg trials and which can still be found in today’s online news. Genocide crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression crimes of war
- A rundown but functional old vending machine stands alone. Every now and again, without warning, it springing into life - spewing out free packets of crisps for gallery visitors. The machine has been modified. and longer functions in the conventional way - at the whim of snack-hungry people Now, it continually scans the news on the BBC News RSS feed - commanding the machine only to release snacks when words relating to the recession make the headlines. Whilst seemingly an act of generosity - gifting free food at moments when further doom and gloom is reported - the Vending Machine also hints towards a time in the future when our access to food may literally be determined by wider political or environmental events. How do we consume data now?
- Thomson & Craighead’s work raises questions about what it means to aggregate and interconnect large bodies of information, inviting reflection on how mechanisms like the World Wide Web, alter, extend and distort our understanding of the world around us. They’re keen observers of the ways in which people interact with these new spaces, whose materials include found YouTube footage, search terms and extracted texts from individual and corporate contributors to online media. In decorative newsfeeds Live news headlines from around the world are transformed into algorithmically drawn animated lines that create unique pathways across the screen. As different headlines travel across each other, original meanings and implications are transformed. The work raises questions about the mutability of information and how the way we experience it informs its meaning as much as the actual content. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/slide/docs/decmov.html = short movie
- Fairytale for Sale explores wedding customs in the UK, revealing the theatre, fantasy, performance and trophy moments of the traditional big day. The series consists of online adverts of brides wearing redundant wedding dresses. Caruana posed as a bride to hear stories which ranged from financial to divorce Intriguing language of identity concealment leaving behind the props of the big white dresses How technology mediates relationships Shift from culture of keeping to culture of sharing
- Julie Freeman, We Need Us, 2014 (ongoing) Julie Freeman’s ongoing art work ‘We Need US ‘ is a live online, animated art work powered by people using the web. Commissioned by the ODI and the Space the piece draws on metadata by capturing, collecting and exposing the real-time activity of the citizen science project Zooniverse users, as they click and swipe online around the globe. Matching labour with labour, hand-crafted not generative Explores what might be ‘living’ qualities of data and metadata. Julie wanted to explore the fundamental qualities of data, asking if data had lives of their own , what would they be?
- In Summary Thought experiment The work is research-led, but it is unknown whether the artists' process will result in a definitive answer. The piece explores data in terms of what is unpredictable and unknowable and its title reminds us of the humanity in technology, and that we need ‘us’ as much as we need it. As everything becomes data-driven, key question is: not how do we visualise it, but what does it mean? How do we apply equal weight and consideration to architecture of online space as to the built environment? How do we build trust in networked society to explore new forms of knowledge, and more? Information and data are malleable and open to interpretation Data can represent and retell stories, creating new and different contexts