fermenting.data

What if ^data could be fermented? What would fermented ^data look like, how would it smell and sound? Who would share it and with whom? Could it be eaten? Could it be passed on and exchanged? Who would decide how this is done?

Fermenting Data is a speculation on how data practices could be different. Rather than staying within the dominant data processing models based on capture, extraction and surveillance, we take inspiration from symbiotic relations between microbes, plants, and human cultures related to food processing and preservation, to intervene and invent ^fermenting ^data practices.

The exhibition Fermenting Data: Aarhus 8000-8220 presents two commissioned art projects, and curatorial installation of ^data generated during workshops in Autumn 2020. The exhibition takes place from 17/09/2021 – 16/10/2021 in two city locations in Spanien gallery and Andromeda in Gellerup. The two locations are connected by (Echo sound) map telling stories of ^data and ^fermentation, city and its people, bodies and their times, jars and microbes.

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Exhibition and Events Program

All events are free, but some require booking. Please check @ fermentingdata.net

17 September

Opening of the exhibition Fermenting Data: Aarhus 8000-8220

across different locations in the city. See directions below

16.00 - 16.45 Sphagnum Time by Sissel Marie Tonn @ Spanien19C (off space), Jægergårdsgade 154e, 8000

17.45 - 18.30 Exhibition vernissage continues @ Andromeda8220, Gudrunsvej 78, 8220

24 September @ GellerupScenen, Gudrunsvej 78, 8220

16.00-17.00 Aarhus Urban Operating System performance by Anders Visti.

25 September @ GellerupScenen, Gudrunsvej 78, 8220

14.00-15.00 & 16.00-17.00 Aarhus Urban Operating System performance by Anders Visti.

2 October @ Andromeda8220, Gudrunsvej 78, 8220

11.00-13.00 Curatorial Tour of Fermenting Data exhibition across the city (free no booking required).

14.00-17.00 Fermenting Data workshop (free but booking required).

10 October @ Andromeda8220, Gudrunsvej 78, 8220

15.00-17.00 Film The Creeping Garden with introduction by Magda Tyzlik-Carver.

15 October @ Andromeda8220, Gudrunsvej 78, 8220

13.00-16.30 Symposium: Mapping City, Mapping Bodies, Mapping Data.

17.00-18.00 Aarhus Urban Operating System performance by Anders Visti @ GellerupScenen, Gudrunsvej 78, 8220

16 October @ GellerupScenen, Gudrunsvej 78, 8220

14.00-15.00 & 16.00-17.00 Aarhus Urban Operating System performance by Anders Visti.

17.30 Closing of Fermenting Data: Aarhus 8000-8220 exhibition @ Andromeda8220, Gudrunsvej 78, 8220

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Magda Tyżlik-Carver ^{curator & writer/researcher}
Anders Visti ^{artist & curator}
Sissel Marie Tonn ^artist
Joana Chicau ^{graphic & web designer}
Aysha Amin ^{curator Andromeda}
Grete Agaard ^{curator Sigrids Stue}
Jens Hyldegaard ^{designer-maker}
Nikolaj Christian Mikkelsen ^{digital designer/maker}
Asger Bruns ^{sound recordings & production}

Curators of Fermenting Data wish to thank all the workshop participants in Andromeda in Autumn 2020 and during Den Grænseløse Festival in Summer 2021.
For generous support we wish to thank STEEM Research Center, Humans and IT Research Program, and the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies at Aarhus University.
For all the help along the way thank yous to Palle Schmidt, Sarah Jarsbo, Paulina Asingh, Søren Pold, Rasmus Lunding, and Pablo Velasco.

Fonts: Ark-es by Eddie Stuart and Not Courier Sans by Open Source Publishing (OSP);
Publication under: Free Art License 1.3;
'JAR' source code for image dithering by Anders Visti;