DATA FLUENCIES EXHIBITIONS April–July 2025
“Data Fluencies: Rivulets” Boston Cyberarts (@bostoncyberarts) Boston, MA, USA Opening April 18, 2025
“Data Fluencies: Tributaries” Or Gallery (@orgallery) Vancouver, BC, Canada Opening May 29, 2025
“Data Fluencies: Confluence” Living Arts and Science Center (@lasclex) Lexington, KY, USA Opening June 6, 2025
Encompassing three thematically connected shows on view across North America in mid-2025, the Data Fluencies exhibition series investigates art’s potential for reimagining our often-narrow understandings of data and machine learning. The exhibitions will run between April and July at Boston Cyberarts (Boston), Or Gallery (Vancouver), and the Living Arts and Science Center (Lexington).
Each exhibition features work by six contemporary artists—Lai Yi Ohlsen (@laiyi____), Lani Asunción (@lani.asuncion), Jazsalyn (@jazsalyn), Kristoffer Ørum (@kristofferorum), Caroline Sinders (@carolinesinders), and Roopa Vasudevan (@rouxpz)—alongside experimental outputs from the broader Data Fluencies Project, an international research initiative based out of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University. The exhibitions aim to provide open public engagement with the research emerging from the larger project, and place it next to cutting-edge and critical work of artists examining similar themes and ideas.
Together, these artists and researchers offer us ways to (re)consider our relationships with the data that surrounds and drives our everyday lives—and perhaps find new routes to agency once we are able to do so.
The Data Fluencies exhibitions are generously supported by the Mellon Foundation (@mellonfoundation) and the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, @simonfraseru). Organized by Roopa Vasudevan, a co-PI on the Data Fluencies Project. Visual identity by PROPS SUPPLY (@props.supply).
