Health Beyond Data: Do algorithms care?

Artist talk w/ Amanda Bennetts
Stealth Care: Wellness from the Algorithm

Join us for an artist talk with Amanda Bennetts, exploring the themes, research and technologies that inform her new exhibition 'Stealth Care: Wellness from the Algorithm'. This program is part of the 29th International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA).

Stealth Care: Wellness from the Algorithm invites visitors into the spectral spaces where AI, health data, and artistic and scientific research converge, interrogating the porous boundaries where data ownership and algorithmic agency bleed into the realities of healthcare and wellness industries. This immersive, multi-sensory installation is born from six months of cross-disciplinary research in Austria with Ars Electronica x IT:U, and harnesses machine learning and Bennetts’ personal, ‘non-normative’ crip and chronically ill bio-data as a foundational research element. Can the quantified self serve the ill body? As someone with an extensive medical data profile, Bennetts sought to understand when her biological data becomes the focal point, separated from non-normative measurements and untethered from the exploitation of third-party health data frameworks; what will it unveil?

WHEN: 2–3pm, Saturday June 29th
WHERE: Outer Space Main Gallery, Judith Wright Arts Centre, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley⁠, Meanjin/Brisbane.
ACCESSIBILITY: The gallery is wheelchair accessible from the Brunswick St entrance. There will be amplified sound, and ample seating available. If you have any specific access needs, please either email admin@outerspacebrisbane.org or send us a message on Instagram.

This is a free public program. More information on the exhibition here. #isea2024

Image: Amanda Bennetts, Stealth Care: Wellness from the Algorithm, 2024, Studio view. Photo: Christine Hall