Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print - Hardcover

 
9783777444529: Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print

Synopsis

W.E.B. Du Bois and the interplay of data, technology, and race in the twenty-first century.

Data Consciousness brings together original essays and an interview exploring W.E.B. Du Bois and his contributions to sociology, art, and aesthetics from the perspective of six contemporary Black artists and scholars who explore how data, information, and technology increasingly mediate issues of race, identity, and equity. It includes full documentation of the forthcoming major print work, Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century, made by William Villalongo and Shraddha Ramani in collaboration with six fine art print publishers across the United States.
 

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About the Author

Tiffany E. Barber is assistant professor of African American art at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the author of Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women's Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation.

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