Mimi Onuoha
Nigerian-American artist examining how data systems affect disenfranchised communities
Biography
Mimi Onuoha was born in 1989. The Nigerian-American artist works in print, code, installation and video to examine how data systems affect disenfranchised communities. She has held residencies at Studio XX in Canada, the Data & Society Research Institute, the Royal College of Art and Eyebeam. Her work has been shown at La Gaite Lyrique in France, FIBER Festival in the Netherlands, the Mao Jihong Arts Foundation in China and the Centre Pompidou. 40% of Food in the US is Wasted is an interactive video that repurposes 1950s to 1980s archival clips from the Prelinger Archives and the USDA to critique agricultural promises of progress and the reality of food waste.
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