Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art on view at the College’s Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery (Sep 19, 2024 – Feb 15, 2025), investigates how contemporary art, design, and culture have responded to Big Data’s outsized role in modern life. The exhibition focuses on nuanced concepts about data and data visualization that include Data Humanism, Invisible Data and Data Environments. Exhibiting work by sixteen artists, designers and collaborative teams working in an array of media, participants include Refik Anadol, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Mika Tajima, Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattengerg, and others.

Featured panelists of Data in the Digital Age include artists and designers whose work and projects are at the forefront of experimental strategies in teaching about data and design. The panel is moderated by Maggie Hendrie, Dean of the ArtCenter's Media and Technology division. Panelists include Santiago Lombeyda and Hillary Mushkin, part of the Data to Discovery initiative, as well as Jason Forrest and Jen Ray of Data Vandals.

Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art is among the more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. The exhibition is organized by Julie Joyce, director, ArtCenter Galleries; Stephen Nowlin, artist, curator, and founding director of ArtCenter’s Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery; and Christina Valentine, curator, ArtCenter Galleries.

PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit: pst.art.

Attendees are invited to a social reception with complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres.

This multifaceted exhibition explores how contemporary art, design and culture respond to data’s impact on daily life. Drawing attention to prescient concepts regarding the selection, collection, and dissemination of data, the exhibition considers data visualization as a practice and as a model for deeper exploration. Part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide, the exhibition features the work of more than 16 artists and designers, including Refik Anadol, Data to Discovery, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Giorgia Lupi and Ehren Shorday, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Semiconductor, Mika Tajima, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim, and others.

Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art is on view at the College’s Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery beginning Sep 19, 2024.

Open to the public (no ticket necessary) Wed-Sat noon to 5 p.m.

A keynote presentation from our distinguished speaker, Safiya U. Noble, will conclude the evening.

Dr. Safiya Noble’s work brings a valuable critical lens to design and technology that raises important questions around issues which societies around the globe continue to grapple with. As AI and algorithms work their way into the public imagination, leading intellectuals like Noble deepen our understanding of the potential for harm and enable us to advocate for better futures.

About Safiya Noble

Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Race & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She currently serves as Interim Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative, leading work in critical data studies for the campus.

Professor Noble is the author of the best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic harm in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination.

For more details, please visit Dr. Noble’s website