Counter Institutional Data Practice

Description

This day programme rethinks data rights and freedoms against museums and industry, working collaboratively towards a document of grassroots ‘best practices’ that may be utilised by activists, artists, scholars and others working towards more just and liberatory digital futures. With invited guests including Dr. Monica Hanna, artist Nora Al-Badri, union organiser Yaseen Aslam and artist and researcher Mariana Fernández Mora, the discussion centres strategic efforts to counter data monopolisation and surveillance, digital freedom and privacy and community-based work to repair and restore archives and knowledges.

The intended outcomes of this workshop are twofold: in the short term, it provides a forum for meaningful exchange between participants with diverse experience across art, academia and activism to collaboratively aggregate actionable strategies countering institutional digital-knowledge monopolies. In the longer term, the intended aim is to transform the workshop outputs into an open-access ‘data liberation best practices’ document.

Period	31 Oct 2025
Event type	Workshop
Location	AmsterdamShow on map