Opening Celebration

Data Fluencies: Tributaries
Opening Celebration

29 May 2025
5:00-8:00pm

Please join us for the opening celebration of Data Fluencies: Tributaries featuring artists Lani Asunción, JAZSALYN, Lai Yi Ohlsen, Kristoffer Ørum, Caroline Sinders and Roopa Vasudevan, with experimental research by the Night School for Data Fluencies, DATA/FFECT and Data Fluencies Pedagogies.

Participant Bios

Lani Asunción is a multimedia artist who holds a Master of Fine Arts from UConn School of Fine Arts. Recipient of 2022 Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant from New England Foundation for the Arts. Asunción is a visiting lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design teaching public art, performance, and Interdisciplinary Studio.

Jazsalyn is an artist exploring data loss, memory restoration, and Ancestral Intelligence through alternative media and re-indigenization. Her work has been supported by Serpentine Arts Technologies, Pioneer Works, and more. She is the Artistic Director of Black Beyond and teaches at The New School, where she has written coursework on African and Diaspora rituals as speculative technology.

Lai Yi Ohlsen is an artist and Internet researcher. Her creative work has been supported by NEW INC, Pioneer Works, Movement Research, Triple Canopy, BRIC and more. She is an adjunct lecturer at The New School and a Senior Product Manager at Cloudflare. 

Kristoffer Ørum is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the intersection of technology, memory, and imagination. Through innovative uses of AI and digital systems, he explores alternative narratives that challenge social and political norms. His internationally exhibited practice invites audiences to reimagine the possibilities of human-machine collaboration and collective storytelling.

Caroline Sinders is an award winning critical designer, researcher, and artist. They are the founder of human rights and design lab, Convocation Research + Design, and a current BRAID fellow with the University of Arts, London. They have worked with the Tate Exchange at the Tate Modern, the United Nations, Ars Electronica’s AI Lab, The Information Commissioner’s Office (the UK’s data protection and privacy regulator), the Harvard Kennedy School, and others.

Roopa Vasudevan is a media artist, computer programmer, and scholar investigating sociotechnical defaults and protocols, and how they intersect with larger cultural and economic power structures. She has been supported by the Processing Foundation, Eyebeam, and NEW INC, among others, and is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The Imaginative Methods Lab, founded by Gillian Russell and Frédérik Lesage, is a methods incubator dedicated to the design, analysis and deployment of research methods for collaborative imagining, prototyping, and experiencing different understandings of the present. Fables For Imagining was created in collaboration with Samein Shamsher, Craig Badke, Lauren Thu, and Pete Fung. Illustrations by Doan Truong.

DATA/FFECT is Anthony Burton, Matt Canute, Craig Fahner, Ganaele Langlois and Rory Sharp. The collective is developing open-source software tools and methods that explore the relationships between algorithmic media, affect and mis- and dis-information.

Moments with Data represents a collaboration among the researchers of the Data Fluencies project, along with workshop facilitators, instructors, and students who took part in the courses and workshops developed as part of the initiative.