Data Doom Desire

Group Exhibition

Artists

Asia Bazdyrieva , Solveig Qu Suess , Mark Cinkevich , Sara Bezovšek , Anna Engelhardt , Santa Pile , Martin Gasser , Silvan David Peter , Christina Humer , Oleg Lesota , Sasha Litvintseva , Beny Wagner , Martyna Marciniak , Jenna Sutela , Kenneth Constance Loe , Moritz Nahold , Joanna Coleman , Martina Moro

Date, Location

  • 20 November 2024–04 January 2025 Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich (AIL)

Keywords

Digital Arts, Digital Culture, Media Art

Press Release

The group exhibition Data Doom Desire explores how the rationalist desire to quantify and animate the world through generative means shape not only our perception but also our beliefs and sense of being, highlighting the ramifications of this very impulse. Rather than viewing data-driven processes as purely technical, the works in the exhibition scrutinize how they shape collective sensibilities and more-than-human networks. Technical reproduction and representation – through micro- and macroscopic visualization, sonification, animation, or online feeds — have been central to how we interact with the world and how affective dimensions of reality are shaped: from early land surveys to the rise of modern colonial scientific tools, to data visualization, planetary networks, surveillance systems, military infrastructures and machine learning. Data Doom Desire focuses on biased scientific inquiry, the affective dimensions of online content, the limits of human cognition and the infrastructures of conflict, disaster fiction, and doomed outputs.

Opening

2024-11-20

Location

Address

  • Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich
  • Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
  • 1010 Wien
  • Österreich

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Published By: Mikkel Rørbo | Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien | Publication Date: 12 January 2026, 08:59 | Edit Date: 12 January 2026, 09:00