Data Crunchers

Year: 2021

Media: Quilt

Dimensions/Duration: 75" x 54"

This quilt looks at how data plays a massive role in police violence, criminalizing innocent people. There is an underlying system crunching all the behavior data generated by our online likes, hears clicks, and searches that shape where and how we move. A legacy of capitalism is at play to endure the market's growth and sustainability. There is no care or justice in this system, just data crunching.  

I imagine this to be an elegant system, one that is so mesmerizing we believe it leads to freedom, when in fact it feeds off our free will. It won't stop until we stop feeding it. So how the hell do we stop feeding it as a collective, not just individuals? That is the work ahead.