end_notes 10: Dark Data is an 84-page, color publication with an essay by Dark Data curator Gee Wesley, a conversation between co-curators Wesley, Mae Miller, and Bianca Dominguez, and essay excerpts by Simone Brown and Mimi Ọnụọha. Photography by Yann Chashanovski. Book design by Unyimeabasi Udoh. Series design by Partner & Partners. Manufactured in Long Island City, New York.

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Published October 2021.

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Description

Dark Data presents the work of six artists who explore pervasive forms of data collection, mass-surveillance, and hypervisibility visited upon Black life through technologies of predictive policing, data-mining, algorithmic violence, and artificial intelligence. The project situates these emergent data technologies within a broader lineage of anti-Black surveillance and quantification. Dark Data highlights a host of artistic and social tactics exercised by Black practitioners to actively respond to these conditions through experimental archival strategies, inventive modes of technological encryption, and gestures of digital worldmaking.