Introduction: The afterlives of data

Murphy, Brian Michael; Paulsen, Kris

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Title

Introduction: The afterlives of data

Author(s)

• Murphy, Brian Michael
• Paulsen, Kris

Issue Date

2023-02

Keyword(s)

• Introduction
• Afterlives of Data

Abstract

Guest edited by scholars Brian Michael Murphy (Bennington College) and Kris Paulsen (The Ohio State University), this special issue entitled Afterlives of Data features articles, interview, artist projects, and reviews that address the ways the material conditions of data and art are shifting, and how thinkers, artists, and scholars can offer crucial scaffolding for understanding how we arrived here. The issue presents prehistories of data models we take for granted and provides historical contexts that clarify what is new and what is not, helping us to see where we now might be headed. NFTs, DNA data, the sensuous traces of e-waste, facial recognition software trained on marginalized subjects, and the institutionalized processes of dispossessing human subjects from their colonial contexts all present ways in which data comes to have an afterlife that haunts our present and potential futures.

Series/Report Name or Number

Media-N, vol. 19, issue 1

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v19i1.1176

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright 2023 Brian Michael Murphy, Kris Paulsen
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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