Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha, a Data & Society advisor, creates work that questions and exposes the contradictory logics of technological progress. Through print, code, data, video, installation, and archival media, Ọnụọha offers new orientations for making sense of the seeming absences that define systems of labor, ecology, and relations. Her recent solo exhibitions include bitforms gallery (USA) and Forest City Gallery (Canada), and her work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of Art (USA), the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (AUS), the Atlanta Contemporary (USA), Gropius Bau (Germany), Mao Jihong Arts Foundation (China), La Gaitê Lyrique (France), and The Photographers Gallery (UK). Her public art engagements have been supported by Akademie der Kunst (Germany), Le Centre Pompidou (France), the Royal College of Art (UK), the Rockefeller Foundation (USA), and Princeton University (USA). Ọnụọha earned her MPS from NYU Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she has taught as an assistant professor. She is a Creative Capital and Fulbright-National Geographic grantee, and the co-founder of A People’s Guide To Tech, an artist-led organization that makes educational guides and workshops about emerging technology.
Mimi Onuoha
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podcast
Data & SocietyMimi Onuoha and Lam Thuy Vo consider what is lost when human life becomes translated into data. Read moreMay 2021 -
op-ed
QuartzD&S affiliate Mimi Onuoha states that discarded and sold hardware often has data still on it. It’s not just individuals who are lax about removing data, companies around the world are at fault as well. In a 2007 study rese... Read on QuartzMay 2017 -
Longform
FiveThirtyEightD&S affiliate Mimi Onuoha details the process of completely deleting data. This overwriting process is a bit like painting a wall: If you start with a white wall and paint it red, there’s no way to erase the red. If you wa... Read on FiveThirtyEightJanuary 2017 -
op-ed
QuartzD&S affiliate Mimi Onuoha profiles the Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC) of Broadway and off-Broadway and their efforts “to track racial demographic data in the industry.” Read on QuartzDecember 2016 -
video
Eyeo FestivalD&S fellow Mimi Onuoha participates in the 'Tech-Driven Activism' panel at Eyeo 2016. Tech-Driven Activism – How can code-based practices contribute to effective activism? How can activist approaches allow us to examine an... Read on Eyeo FestivalAugust 2016 -
podcast
Data StoriesD&S fellow Mimi Onuoha is interviewed about design processes and current projects. Read on Data StoriesJuly 2016 -
blog post
How We Get To NextD&S Fellow Mimi Onuoha tries to figure out where her electrity comes from...and runs into a few roadblocks. To know where your electricity comes from is to know all the points it travels through: the generators that produc... Read on How We Get To NextFebruary 2016 -
blog post
PointsD&S fellow Mimi Onuoha thinks through the implications of the moment of data collection and offers a compact set of reminders for those who work with and think about data. "The conceptual, practical, and ethical issues s... Read on PointsFebruary 2016 -
Resource
GitBooksD&S fellow Mimi Onuoha along with Jeanne Pinder and Jan Schaffer at the Tow Center have put together a comprehensive guide on crowdsourcing. The guide is organized around a journalism-related definition of crowdsourcing and... Read on GitBooksNovember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyIn this blog post, D&S fellow Mimi Onuoha discusses the motivations of those who contribute to crowdsourced journalism as a part of the forthcoming report "Guide to Crowdsourcing". Read on Data & SocietyOctober 2015