Governing by Networks I | DSC06466. Map of Borderline Biennial, by Abode of Chaos (2007). © Licensed under CC BY 2.0 31 Oct 2025
11:00 - 17:00
Counter-Institutional Data Practices
Taking place on Friday 31 October, the Counter-Institutional Data Practices symposium and workshop opens up a discussion about liberatory data practices from decolonising and democratising perspectives. Speakers include Dr. Monica Hanna, Nora Al-Badri, Yaseen Aslam and Mariana Fernández Mora, who bring expertise from across art, activism and academia.
This day programme rethinks data rights and freedoms against museums and industry, working collaboratively towards a document of grassroots ‘best practices’ that may be utilised by activists, artists, scholars and others working towards more just and liberatory digital futures. With invited guests including Dr. Monica Hanna, artist Nora Al-Badri, union organiser Yaseen Aslam and artist and researcher Mariana Fernández Mora, the discussion centres strategic efforts to counter data monopolisation and surveillance, digital freedom and privacy and community-based work to repair and restore archives and knowledges.
The intended outcomes of this workshop are twofold: in the short term, it provides a forum for meaningful exchange between participants with diverse experience across art, academia and activism to collaboratively aggregate actionable strategies countering institutional digital-knowledge monopolies. In the longer term, the intended aim is to transform the workshop outputs into an open-access ‘data liberation best practices’ document.
The invited speakers bring expertise in projects that include artifactual decolonisation and restitution, labour organising and democratisation and artistic-research outputs on the possibilities and limitations of AI. By centring these practices, this ‘Repair Lab’ foregrounds issues of counter-institutional freedom and autonomy, particularly relating to ways that bodies and knowledges strive to be made knowable or unknowable. Thinking collaboratively through means of resisting technological hegemonies, Counter-Institutional Data Practices strives to imagine liberatory data futurities at both the community and institutional levels.
This event takes place in person as well as online. Register here.
Speakers
Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary and conceptual media artist with a German-Iraqi background. Her works are research-based, paradisciplinary, post-colonial, and post-digital.
Yaseen Aslam is a union organiser who has played a key role in establishing various driver organisations and trade unions. In 2020, he founded the International Alliance of App-based Transport Workers (IAATW).
Dr. Monica Hanna is an associate professor and the acting dean of the College of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Aswan.
Mariana Fernández Mora is a researcher, writer, and artist at the Visual Methodologies Collective at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). She is the initiator of the Slow AI project, host of the Restless Grounds podcast, editor of its annual journal, and author of Dear Machines (2022).
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK); Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
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