Data in the 21st Century
The exhibition Data in the 21st Century explores the friction between the unpredictable reality that we live in and the desire to capture it in data.
Data in the 21st Century
The capitalist belief that profit-seeking is the best way to manage and develop societies has sparked an unprecedented desire to abstract and quantify everything into data. In the pursuit of economic efficiency, data is money, data is power, data is everything and everything is data. Yet data is contingent on a world that is messy, irrational, unstable, and emotional. The rise of so-called big data and the emergence of technologies that are able to quantify our every move, preference and behaviour, have demonstrated where the friction lies between the unpredictable reality that we live in and the desire to capture it in data. The public program Data in the 21st Century will explore how this friction has changed and shaped our relationship to data and seeks to discuss how this relationship will develop in the future.
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Featured Artists
Kyle McDonald
Daniel Goddemeyer, Moritz Stefaner,
Dominikus Baur & Lev Manovich
Martin John Callanan
Timo Arnall
Informal Strategies
PWR Studio
Lane/You/Debackere
Max Dovey & Manetta Berends
Opening Hours & Entrance
December 19, 2015 - February 14, 2016
Thursday - Sunday, 11h - 18h*
* Open every day during IFFR2016: January 27 - February 7
Entrance: 3,5 EUR (at the door, or buy online here)
Upcoming events (click for more information)
5 February 18-21h: Kunstavond
12 February 17-19h: A lecture by Lev Manovich, performance by 'Max Dovey and Manetta Berends & closing
12 February 19-21h: Art Rotterdam Kunstavond
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Futurosity
This project is part of Futurosity, a yearlong program with artist and writer Douglas Coupland as Kunstblock’s ‘artist in focus’. Kunstblock invites everyone to come and jointly consider the term ‘future’, through various exhibits, projects, events and workshops. Kunstblock is a collaborative group made up of art institutions in the Witte de With quarter: TENT, CBK Rotterdam, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Showroom MAMA, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and Worm, Institute for Avant-garde Recreation.
Futurosity is part of Rotterdam viert de stad! (for the complete program go to: www.rotterdamviertdestad.nl) and is kindly supported by the City of Rotterdam (Rotterdam. Make it Happen) and The Art of Impact.
The first part of the Futurosity program is the exhibition Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, on view until 3 January 2016.
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'De Derde Dinsdag' is the live cultural talkshow on cultural events in Rotterdam.
We combine the first community meetup of 2016 with a festive 'New Year's drink'.
During this event we will look back on V2_'s recent manifestation Data in the 21st Century and Max Dovey and Manetta Berends will perform H.I.T.
V2_ celebrates the official launch of a new collection of essays by Douglas Coupland.
A lecture by Vinay Gupta, followed by the performance 'A lecture by Norbert Wiener on Man and Machine (2015)'' by Lane/You/Debackere.
The closing event of Data in the 21st Century features the premiere of 'H.I.T.' by Max Dovey & Manetta Berends. Includes video.
Kunstavond in het Witte de Withkwartier in Februari. Gratis: 18:00–21:00.
A special edition of the Kunstavond during the Art Rotterdam festival.
What can big data tell us about the character of an iconic street? On Broadway (2015) is a work by Lev Manovich, developed in collaboration with Daniel Goddemeyer, Moritz Stefaner, and Dominikus Baur.
Opening the Books (2016) in an artistic intervention by Informal Strategies (Geert van Mil and Doris Denekamp).
Exhausting a Crowd - Netherlands (2015) is a work by Kyle McDonald.
I Cannot Not Communicate (2015) is a collection of 100 books recommended by online bookseller Amazon for the artist, Martin John Callanan.
Internet Machine (2014) an audiovisual triptych by Timo Arnall about the invisible infrastructure of the internet.
Moritz Stefaner is an independent designer, consultant and researcher in the field of data visualization.
Martin John Callanan is an artist researching an individual's place within systems.
'Machines Will Make Better Choices than Humans' features three essays by Douglas Coupland and is available in the V2_Webshop for only EUR 4.50
Introduction to the catalogue of the exhibition Data in the 21st Century (2015-2016)
Tickets for the opening event, closing event and exhibition Data in the 21st Century are now on sale!
Our current exhibition will be open every day during during the International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 27 - February 7)
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