Fermenting Data: Aarhus 8000–8220
Magda Tyżlik-Carver / Anders Visti

Fermenting Data is a speculation on how data practices could be different. Rather than staying within the dominant data processing models based on capture, extraction and surveillance, the project takes inspiration from symbiotic microbes, plants, and human cultures related to food processing and preservation, to intervene and invent Fermenting Data practices.

The exhibition Fermenting Data: Aarhus 8000-8220 is a multi-site project connecting Eastern and Western parts of the city of Aarhus, Denmark, each undergoing social and architectural changes. In the exhibition two commissioned art installations by Danish artists use data to model and tell stories about change. Using such computational processes as neural networks, photogrammetry and other digital 3d modelling techniques, the artists reveal data as a source for affective narrative and storytelling.

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Magda Tyżlik-Carver, curator & writer/researcher
Anders Visti, artist & curator
Sissel Marie Tonn, artist
Joana Chicau, graphic & web designer
Aysha Amin, curator Andromeda
Grete Agaard, curator Sigrids Stue
Jens Hyldegaard , designer-maker
Nikolaj Christian Mikkelsen, digital designer/maker
Asger Bruns, sound recordings & production

Credits:
Curators of Fermenting Data wish to thank all the workshop participants in Andromeda in Autumn 2020 and during Den Grænseløse Festival in Summer 2021. For generous support we wish to thank STEEM Research Center, Humans and IT Research Program, and the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies at Aarhus University. For all the help along the way thank yous to Palle Schmidt, Sarah Jarsbo, Paulina Asingh, Søren Pold, Rasmus Lunding, and Pablo Velasco.
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Fonts: Ark-es by Eddie Stuart and Not Courier Sans by Open Source Publishing (OSP); Publication under: Free Art License 1.3; 'JAR' source code for image dithering by Anders Visti;

Fermenting Data: 8000–8220 project website (Design by Joana Chicau): https://fermentingdata.net/aarhus/

Calculation Otherwise. Transmediale talk on Fermenting Data: https://202122.transmediale.de/almanac/calculation-otherwise