In partnership with Factory Media Centre, Expanded Data brings together researchers and media artists who challenge conventional uses of data, code, and computation through bold, experimental practices. Inspired by Gene Youngblood’s vision in Expanded Cinema (1970), where multi-screen films, video art, live performance and cybernetic cinema redefined the cinematic experience, Expanded Data is rooted in experimentation, interdisciplinarity and critical engagement with technology. 

As researchers and media artists push the boundaries of data-driven technologies —integrating virtual, augmented, and extended reality, machine learning, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence — Expanded Cinema (1970) serves as a conceptual foundation for engaging with ‘data’. Much like Expanded Cinema uprooted conventional filmmaking practices, Expanded Data anticipates the potential of data, code, and computation across diverse venues, platforms, and media, opening new possibilities for creating, exhibiting, performing, and engaging with data-based artworks.  

Expanded Data cultivates critical frameworks for understanding ‘data’ through cultural aesthetics and paradigms, including lo-fi, glitch, speculative design, anti-computing, counter archives, queer data, and artificial life. By engaging with these methodologies, it fosters innovative artistic, theoretical, and technological inquiries that challenge conventional data paradigms. Through interdisciplinary dialogue among artists, researchers and audiences, Expanded Data examines the socio-technical dimensions of living systems and the implications of inherited technological futures.