Mimi Onuoha is a Nigerian-American, Brooklyn-based media artist and researcher. Her work uses code, text, interventions, and objects to explore missing data, AI-based technologies and the ways in which people are abstracted, represented, and classified. Onuoha has been 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. Her exhibition and speaking credits include venues like La Gaitê Lyrique (France), FIBER Festival (Netherlands), Mao Jihong Arts Foundation (China) + Le Centre Pompidou (France), and B4BEL4B Gallery (San Francisco). In 2014 she was selected to be in the inaugural class of Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellows, and in 2017 she was nominated as a Technical.ly Brooklyn Artist of the Year. Onuoha earned her MPS from NYU Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she is currently a researcher. She was visiting faculty at Bennington College in 2017 and currently is serving as the 2018–2019 Creative-in-Residence at Olin College for Engineering.
Reenvisioning the Internet: Embrace Its Multiplicity
“If artists want to reimagine the web, we must set aside the tendency to subscribe to a universal ‘us’ that is blank, neutral, and anonymous (a.k.a white, Western, and tech-literate).” In the sixth edition of our Soundboard series, media artist and researcher Mimi Onuoha shares her thoughts on the question, “How can we reenvision the internet?”