Data Made Visible in Contemporary Art

Event ID: OE46964

Sat, Mar 14, 2026 | 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Venue: Innovation Clubhouse (Brazos Hall)

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Summary

Internationally recognized digital artist Jason Salavon uses custom software to examine how shared visual culture is formed. Working with large collections of everyday images, from family photographs to advertisements and online archives, he translates them into composite pictures that reveal patterns beneath individual experience. In his practice, data becomes a medium for reflecting on collective behavior, memory, and representation. <br> <br> Hosted by Artforum and presented in conjunction with the exhibition Run the Code: Data-Driven Art at the Blanton Museum of Art, this conversation brings Salavon together with Blanton curator Hannah Klemm and Kathleen Forde, the Thoma Foundation’s curator of digital art to explore how artists use data as a creative material. Together they will consider how data becomes a creative medium, and how art can make can reshape our understanding of data, authorship, and collective identity in a networked world.

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