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| HORST ADEMEIT, untitled, inscribed polaroid, 11 x 9 cm, Courtesy Galerie Susanne Zander / Delmes & Zander |
HORST ADEMEIT at CCCB, Barcelona
"BIG BANG DATA"
From May 9 to 26 October 2014
CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
"Is data the new oil, a potentially boundless source of wealth? Is it the ammunition for arms of mass surveillance? Or should it be primarily an opportunity, an instrument for knowledge, prevention, efficiency and transparency, a tool to help construct a more transparent, participatory democracy?
Big Bang Data explores the phenomenon of the information explosion we are currently experiencing.The last five years have seen the emergence of a generalized awareness among academic and scientific sectors, government agencies, businesses and culture that generating, processing and above all interpreting data is radically transforming our society.
We all generate data, with our mobile phones, sensors, social networks, digital photographs and videos, purchase transactions and GPS signals. What is new is that it is increasingly easy to store and process these vast quantities of data that detect patterns (of incidents, behaviour, consumption, voting, investment, etc.). This fact is very quickly and completely changing the way decisions are made at all levels. (...)"
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