The exhibition challenges traditional, extractive approaches to data and instead centers frameworks
of reciprocity, empathy, and environmental awareness. Featured projects span speculative design, community-centered storytelling,
eco-critical perspectives, and AI co-authorship — all aiming to illuminate hidden stories, disrupt bias, and propose alternative
ways of seeing and engaging with data.
Collective Care: A New Vision for Visualizing DataAs
data-driven technologies increasingly shape our lives and environments, VIS Arts Program (VISAP) 2025 invites the public to
reimagine data visualization as an act of care, responsibility, and connection. This year’s edition, titled “Collective Care,”
brings together a peer-reviewed international array of artists, researchers, and designers working at the intersection of
art, science, and ethics to ask: How do we design visualizations that not only represent, but actively protect, nurture, and
respect the environments and communities embedded within datasets?
Exhibition Dates and Details:Opening Event:
6 November 2025
Keynote Speaker: Kim Albrecht
Atrium & Auditorium,
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Wien
, 18:00
Full Experience Exhibition:
6–7 November 2025
11:00–19:00
Atrium, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Wien
Augmented Reality Exhibition:
8–15 November 2025
Atrium, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Wien
(Accessible via mobile devices and QR codes — open daily)
VISAP 2025: Collective Care runs in conjunction with the IEEE VIS 2025 conference, the premier global forum for
visualization research and PIXELvienna 18 conference.About VISAP
The VIS Arts Program
(VISAP) is a dedicated exhibition and mini-conference running alongside IEEE VIS, the leading international conference on
data visualization. As the largest affiliated event within the conference, VISAP acts as a dynamic platform for media artists,
data scientists, and theorists to meet, collaborate, and explore critical new directions in art and technology.
Submissions
to VISAP include original artworks, papers, and pictorials. All accepted contributions will be showcased on the VISAP website
and featured the catalog. Papers and pictorials will be formally published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
This year,
VISAP 2025 will take place in person in Vienna, with additional programming including a keynote by Kim Albrecht at the opening.
The University of Applied Arts made it possible to open up the exhibition without admission fees to the local community to
foster exchange between global and Austrian creative networks.
For more Information
: https://visap.net
Contact:
Exhibition Chair:
Martina Fröschl, martina.froeschl@uni-ak.ac.at
