Shaping Data - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen

Shaping Data at the Wilhelm Hack Museum is part of From Where I Stand, the exhibition program I curated for the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie and presents the following artists 👇

📷 1 Thomas Kuijpers Volumes, 2021 

📷 2 Salvatore Vitale The Shielding, 2021–ongoing 

📷 3 Mónica Alcázar-Duarte Second Nature, 2017–ongoing 

📷 4 Yufan Lu Make Me Beautiful, 2018–ongoing 

📷 4,6 Matthieu Gafsou H+, 2015–2018 

📷 5 Heba Y. Amin Project Speak2Tweet, 2011–ongoing 

📷 6 Alexandra Davenport Plassein, 2022 

📷 7 Sara, Peter & Tobias The Merge, 2020 

📷 8,9 Paulien Oltheten La Défense, The Venturing Gaze, 2017–2018 

Shaping Data explores how the widespread use of digital technologies affects our physical bodies, frames our opinions, and alters human inter- actions. We spend lots of our time with our devices sharing often personal data that fuels algorithms. In turn, these algorithmic processes decide what we see and hear. This immediate feedback creates the illusion that we are in control of our own lives and the lives of others. 

The selected artists in Shaping Data critically examine the relationship between physical and virtual worlds while disrupting existing technologies. They try to reveal patterns created by artificial intelligence; for example: wherever there are biased people, there are biased images, and biased algorithms that have sorted those images. 

Shaping Data also presents possible futures in which our enhanced bodies and lives become the new norm. What does it mean to be human in a highly automated world and how we can shape the data in an effort to create a more equal world? 

Images  @miriamstanke except images 3 @lys_y_seng 

 
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