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.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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mimionuoha.comD&S fellow Mimi Onuoha contemplates our ability to access and analyze data about ourselves and whether or not we actually need (or want) to see all of it. To be clear, I'm all for data analysis, empowerment, journalism and... Read on mimionuoha.comJuly 2015