The ODI’s Data as Culture art programme engages new and diverse audiences with work by artists who critically and materially explore data, code and network culture.
We commission internationally renowned artists to make new works, take part in exhibitions physically and online or undertake residencies at our headquarters in London, and with our cultural and corporate partners.
Our art programmes and partnerships have reached thousands of people, on and off line. Artworks have included a semi-sentient vending machine, data collection performances, photographs, networked artworks, pneumatic machines, live-coding performances and ‘stitch-hacked’ jumpers. You can browse our projects here.
We are always interested in working with new people. Calls for artist commissions are announced on an ongoing basis. Please contact us with partnership enquiries.
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Course, Data Ethics Professional, Online
Data Ethics Professional and Data Ethics Facilitator Certification Mon, 13 Sep 2021, 09:00 Online
- Skills and literacy
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Talk
ODI Fridays: Artist AM Darke on Fairly Intelligent™️ Fri, 18 Jun 2021, 16:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Policy
- Public service design
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Course, Data Ethics Professional, Online
Data Ethics Professional and Data Ethics Facilitator Certification Mon, 21 Jun 2021, 09:00 Online
- Skills and literacy
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Talk
ODI Fridays: Artist Nick Briz on howthey.watch/you Fri, 28 May 2021, 13:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Talk
ODI Fridays: Artist Everest Pipkin on the making of Shell Song Fri, 21 May 2021, 13:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data ethics and privacy
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Blog, News 26/10/2020
Winners – ODI Writers' Fund for Black History Month 2020
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data publishing and use
- Science and research
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Blog 26/10/2020
The dividing line: how we represent race in data
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data publishing and use
- Science and research
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Blog 26/10/2020
i am A.I. and Thou
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Blog 26/10/2020
Facing Decisions
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Case study, Case study [Luminate] 07/10/2020
Data as Culture: interrogating data with art
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Carrie Brindle
- Hannah Redler Hawes
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Blog, News 15/09/2020
ODI Writers' Fund for Black History Month 2020
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Policy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
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Talk
ODI Fridays: The BFI on weaponising the filmography Fri, 25 Sep 2020, 13:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Talk
ODI Fridays: Maintaining the archive for the world's largest museum complex Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 15:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Talk
Online ODI Fridays: The making of DoxBox trustbot Fri, 20 Mar 2020, 13:00 Online only
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data ethics and privacy
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Talk
ODI Fridays: Vicarious – the emotional impact of data Fri, 06 Mar 2020, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Blog 28/01/2020
Communicating data stories through art and storytelling
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data publishing and use
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Meetup, Members Event, Talk
Private view: Copy That? Surplus Data in an Age of Repetitive Duplication Tue, 04 Feb 2020, 17:45 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, 3rd Floor, London, EC2A 4JE
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Talk
ODI Fridays: The poetry of data with Mr Gee Fri, 28 Feb 2020, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Talk
ODI Fridays: The problem with using open source for building humanitarian tools Fri, 17 Jan 2020, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Humanitarian response
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Blog 22/02/2019
Not Neutrality: What does fair really mean for service users?
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Public service design
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Blog 20/11/2018
'Dystopians just wanna have fun': ODI's artist in residence on need for openness and accountability
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Blog 12/10/2018
Behind the Curtain: art and the morality of gathering public information
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
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Talk
ODI Fridays: Exploring trust and distrust of public information through art Fri, 02 Nov 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data ethics and privacy
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Blog 10/08/2018
The problem with social numbers driving self-worth
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data ethics and privacy
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Data as Culture exhibition
LMAO 😹 Fri, 26 Jan 2018, 09:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Data as Culture exhibition
Thinking Out Loud Fri, 15 Jul 2016, 09:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Thinking out Loud is built around the practice of the 2016 ODI Sound Artist in Residence, Alex McLean, with a group of artists, designers, makers and musicians he has collaborated with.
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Talk
Friday lunchtime lecture: Data as a creative material Fri, 02 Feb 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Talk
Friday lunchtime lecture: Hidden in plain sight (by the ODI artist in residence) Fri, 26 Jan 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Blog 13/10/2015
Natural History Museum: 'We hope people will discover new species with our open data'
- Arts, culture and heritage