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Mimi Onuoha

Mimi Ọnụọha is a Nigerian American visual artist and academic based in Brooklyn, NY whose work examines the effect of data collection and technology on society.[1][2][3]

Mimi Onuoha
EducationNew York University, Princeton University

Early life and education

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Ọnụọha was born in 1989 in Parma, Italy,[4] and grew up in Houston, Texas.[5] Ọnụọha majored in anthropology[6] at Princeton University.[7] She earned a Master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.[8]

Work

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Ọnụọha's work, including The Library of Missing Datasets,[9] has explored the idea of "missing datasets," which she describes as "blank holes in otherwise data-saturated systems," such as information about citizen surveillance by the police. These gaps in modern data collection can both harm and help vulnerable communities.[6] Ọnụọha points out that Google Maps lacks map data for Brazil's favelas, leaving out communities where more than a million people live.[10] She is also interested in the effects of artificial intelligence and how people are classified and abstracted by data.[6] Ọnụọha is the co-author of A People's Guide to Tech with Mother Cyborg.[11], an artist-led organization that creates educational guides in the form of zines and hosts workshops about emerging technology.[12] She previously taught at Bennington College.[7] Based in Brooklyn,[6] she is currently an adjunct professor at New York University.[1]

Exhibitions

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Ọnụọha's recent solo exhibitions include bitforms gallery[13] and Forest City Gallery.[14] Her work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,[15] Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, La Gaitê Lyrique, Transmediale Festival, The Photographers Gallery,[16] and NEON.[17] Her public art engagements have been supported by Akademie der Kunst, Le Centre Pompidou, the Royal College of Art, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Princeton University.

Awards and Recognition

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Ọnụọha has been a Fulbright-National Geographic Fellow and an artist in residence at Eyebeam Center for Art & Technology, Studio XX, Data & Society Research Institute, Columbia University’s Tow Center, and the Royal College of Art.[18]

Writing

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Ọnụọha has written articles in publications such as Quartz,[19][20][21] FiveThirtyEight,[22] the Knight Foundation,[23] and National Geographic.[24][25][26] She has also written essays published in The Are.na Annual, FiveThirtyEight, and Nichons-Nous Dans L'Internet.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Mimi Onuoha". Data & Society. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  2. ^ Reventlow, Nani Jansen. "Data collection is not the solution for Europe's racism problem". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  3. ^ "Center for Digital Humanities holds 'Who Counts?' symposium on intersectional data". Princeton University. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  4. ^ "With Mimi Onuoha". Eyebeam. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  5. ^ "Making audacious bets on the future of technology: Media artist Mimi Onuoha '11 shines a light into the invisible margins of data | Princeton Alumni". alumni.princeton.edu. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d "Advice to my younger self: Mimi Onuoha". Ford Foundation. February 12, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Mimi Onuoha | Bennington College". www.bennington.edu. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  8. ^ "Mimi Onuoha | Tow Center". towcenter.columbia.edu. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  9. ^ "The Library of Missing Datasets". Alfalfa Studio. July 31, 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  10. ^ Rosenblat, Alex (October 23, 2018). Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work. Univ of California Press. pp. 111–112. ISBN 978-0-520-97063-2.
  11. ^ "A People's Guide to AI". Allied Media Projects. September 18, 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  12. ^ "A People's Guide to Tech". A People's Guide to Tech. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  13. ^ gallery, bitforms. "Mimi Onuoha, Everything That Didn't Fit". bitforms gallery. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  14. ^ info1509366 (October 27, 2021). "These Networks In Our Skin". Forest City Gallery. Retrieved September 18, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ "Mimi Ọnụọha: What is data?". ACCA. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  16. ^ "Mimi Onuoha - The Future Is Here! | The Photographers Gallery". thephotographersgallery.org.uk. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  17. ^ "HER DATA". NEON. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  18. ^ "Reenvisioning the Internet: Embrace Its Multiplicity". walkerart.org. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  19. ^ Onuoha, Mimi (June 6, 2017). "Side-by-side images expose a glitch in Google's maps". Quartz. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  20. ^ Onuoha, Mimi (May 10, 2017). "You probably are not fully removing your private photos and data before selling your old technology". Quartz. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  21. ^ Onuoha, Mimi (April 19, 2017). "Machine learning is being used to uncover the mass graves of Mexico's missing". Quartz. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  22. ^ Onuoha, Mimi (January 30, 2017). "What It Takes To Truly Delete Data". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  23. ^ "On art and technology: The power of creating our own worlds". Knight Foundation. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  24. ^ "You Are Not Your Data (and a project update)". news.nationalgeographic.org. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  25. ^ "It Matters Most To You: On Digital Literacy and Data Production". news.nationalgeographic.org. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  26. ^ "What Maps Really Show". news.nationalgeographic.org. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
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