WE ARE DATA

Cairo is Data is a film that shows Egypt through the eyes of six emerging new media artists sharing their grounds for inspiration. Their works that they are currently developing navigate the peculiarities, tensions and challenges that come at the intersection of technology, business, culture, and society.
The artists in the film are all part of a fellowship, WE ARE DATA, that is the result of a partnership between Cairotronica (EG) and IMPAKT (NL).
WE ARE DATA came as a response to a rising responsibility placed on ‘technology’ as a tool which facilitates inclusive development and solutions to many challenges currently facing cities like Cairo in sectors such as transportation, health, agriculture and education. This, in turn, raises questions about security, privacy, accountability, bias, agency, transparency, and ethics among many others.
Through the We Are Data fellowship, we wanted to encourage the dialogue on the complexity of Technology and Data in the 21st Century from the perspective of 6 Egyptian artists. The program is structured in a way that creates a space for dialogue, collaboration, and experimentation as it is meant to learn from and adapt to the local context in which the participants are operating. The program was developed with the aim to focus on transdisciplinary art Education & cultural production in Egypt. We wanted to create a program for Egyptian artists that allowed them to explore & produce at the intersection of art, technology, design, and digital culture in a way that encouraged experimentation & dialogue.