February 2026· Reported with a Zoom interview with Janet Echelman, November 2025
What Data Needs: Artists in the Age of Algorithms
Janet Echelman's Remembering the Future hangs 20,000 years of climate data over the MIT Museum lobby. In an era of dashboards that produce numbness rather than understanding, her practice offers a counter-model: not better data visualization, but a different architecture of engagement.
dataart criticismclimatealgorithmic culture
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