Data Consciousness Symposium

Saturday, September 20, 2025, 2 - 6pm

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Cropped section of screenprinted work by William Villalongo and Shraddha Ramani, Black Migration to the U.S.

Image Credit: William Villalongo and Shraddha Ramani, Black Migration to the U.S. (1/2), 2025. Screenprint with chine collé, 22 × 28 inches. © William Villalongo, Shraddha Ramani, and Graphicstudio, University of South Florida, Tampa. Image courtesy Graphicstudio. Photo: Will Lytch.

On the occasion of the exhibition Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print on view at Print Center New York, this symposium gathers multidisciplinary scholars and artists in the exhibition to bridge past, present, and future thinking on the complex interplay of race, identity, data, and technology.

Using the artworks and themes in the exhibition as a jumping off point, the symposium considers how Du Boisian legacies of art, design, literature, and sociology inflect contemporary cultural production, and explores the urgency of cultivating data consciousness in our present moment. 

Program Schedule

2PM: Welcome Remarks 
Judy Hecker, Executive Director, Print Center New York

2:15PM: Du Boisian Legacies
Charisse Burden-Stelly, Anthony Starks, and Christina Jackson. Moderated by Joshua Myers

3:30PM: Break

3:45PM: Data Consciousness Artist Roundtable
Tahir Hemphill, Julia Mallory, Silas Munro, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and William Villalongo and Shraddha Ramani. Moderated by Tiffany E. Barber

Real Time Captioning (CART) will be available throughout the program.

The symposium is cohosted by Print Center New York and The Cooper Union School of Art, and curated by Tiffany E. Barber. Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print’s public programming and symposium is generously supported by Art Bridges.

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Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

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