Join exhibiting artists and celebrate the Mills College Art Museum’s fall exhibition, The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space, opening at the Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University, Oakland. From political forecasting to the charting of global temperatures, data visualization has become a trusted tool to translate and give form to information. As scientists and activists have struggled to accurately communicate the enormity and urgency of humanity’s impact on the Earth, they’ve looked to data visualizations as a key means of communication. Yet these tools—which saturate so much popular media—can be difficult to engage with on a personal level, and at worst can engender feelings of numbness and powerlessness. Data physicalization, or the act of giving a data set physical form, can counteract the data fatigue that we face in a world of digital visualizations.

Organized by Kayleigh Perkov, guest curator, with Juliana Rowen Barton, Director of the Center for the Arts and University Art Collections, and Stephanie Hanor, Director of the Mills College Art Museum.

The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space is presented as a collaboration between Gallery 360 and the Mills College Art Museum. The Oakland presentation is supported by the Joan Danforth Museum Endowment, the Cotton-Prieto Ceramics Fund, and the Jay DeFeo and Hung Liu Endowments.