The Critical Data Research Group was founded by Manuela Naveau as part of the Critical Data professorship at Interface Cultures. Based on the premise that artists are of great value for the study and critical mediation of data usage, data processing systems, and related knowledge, they not only aim to make visible how systems of digitalisation work, but also how they do not.
Currently, the group consists of eleven PhD students: César Escudero Andaluz, Marta Beauchamp, Hess Jeon, Gordan Savicic, Juliane Götz, Yann Patrick Martins, Qingyi Ren, Charleen Elberskirch, Nomi Sasaki, and Alexia Achilleos. During the festival, they will present their research in a poster session.
Events
PhD presentations
Friday, 5th 2025, 13:30
Kunstuniversität Linz, Hauptplatz 6
SKKU Korea presentations on Critical Data
Guest lecture by Fernando Velázquez–Squeezing the Echoes of the Dataset: Art and AI in Latin America
Friday, 5th 2025, 13:30
Kunstuniversität Linz, Hauptplatz 6
This talk reflects on how artists in Latin America engage with an imposed technology that erases local specificities, pressing against its constraints to imagine other ways of seeing, sensing, and creating.
Fernando Velázquez (Montevideo, 1970) is an artist, curator, and educator based in São Paulo whose work explores the intersections of art, science, and technology. His practice spans installations, audiovisual performances, and research on perception, algorithms, and hybrid ecologies.
