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.

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 theodi.org/culture

Curated by Hannah Redler Hawes, Julie Freeman and Anna Scott. Design by Philpott Design.

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: Bring Me My Firetruck by Mr Gee