Dat–Astral Chart explores how data mining shapes digital identities and reflects on the ecological and social impact of hyperconnectivity. The project centers on a hexagonal interactive prediction machine that simulates fingerprint and phone scans to reveal participants’ digital personality types, presented as twelve unique “digital signs.” Visitors receive a personalized card describing their profile, blending playful fortune-telling aesthetics with critical reflection. The installation evokes classic prediction devices with lights, sound, and esoteric engravings, addressing datafication as a new form of extractivism with planetary consequences. It invites audiences to question algorithmic influence on identity, free will, and the future, highlighting intersections between technology, materiality, and sustainability.
Dat–Astral Chart / Noemi Iglesias Barrios - Photo: La Costa Studio
Exhibit
Dat–Astral Chart
Noemi Iglesias Barrios (ES)
Credits
Supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon. Special thanks to all collaborators and institutions that made the realization of Dat – Astral Chart possible: Victor Mazón Gardoqui, Sergio Lunik y Ora Labora. Presented in the context of European Digital Deal. European Digital Deal is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.
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