Rewriting FAIRness

An online symposium dedicated to exploring the intersection of practice-based art research and open research data (ORD). This event takes place within the exploratory study Critical FAIRness at the Critical Media Lab IXDM, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, focusing on the practices of open research data in art and design.

Building on the Data Management Planning workshop from last March, led by Johannes Bruder, Helen V. Pritchard, Femke Snelting, Solveig Qu Suess and Eva Weinmayr, our symposium will continue the dialogues also held with Linda Ludwig and Tabea Lurk. Following the path laid down by the FAIR principles of 2016 – standing for Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Re-usability of data –, we’re looking to expand upon this foundation with further insights from the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) introduced in 2019. We want to consider and weave in the values of Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, and Ethics. Our goal is to facilitate a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of these topics with everyone, including the participants from our previous workshop.

The symposium is a collective platform to examine, critique, and redefine the FAIR principles, with a particular emphasis on access and re-use in the landscape of art and design.

Symposium Goals:

• Annotate the FAIR Principles: We aim to explore the FAIR principles as a modus operandi, gathering experiences, resistance, explanations, and workarounds.
• Platform for Sharing: The symposium will serve as a platform for sharing experiences and discussing the challenges of ORD and FAIR in practice-based research within the art and design community.
• Active Participation: Through engaging discussions (including smaller group sessions), participants can share their experiences from their artistic and research practices.
• Identifying Challenges: By adopting this approach, we seek to identify the challenges within open science/open research data (OS/ORD), paving the way for future discourse in practice-based research in art and design.