EXHAUST – A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON OIL AND DATA27 February 2021 - Online TransmissionCurated by Sonic Acts OVEREXPOSED artistic research resident, writer and theorist Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Exhaust features political and environmental anthropologist Omolade Adunbi, media artist and programmer Ryan Kuo, artist and geographer Helen Pritchard and interdisciplinary researcher Andrea Sempértegui, as well as moderation by critic, curator and art historian Murtaza Vali. The event was transmitted online from Rotterdam on Saturday 27 February 2021, with participants and the audience joining from various locations worldwide.Propelled by the phrase ‘data is the new oil’, coined in 2006 by British mathematician (and customer loyalty card inventor) Clive Humby, Exhaust draws on the insights of eminent academic thinkers and influential practitioners to speculate, critique and make visible the cultural geography of oil and data.More information about Exhaust and its participants can be found at https://bit.ly/3CasgWK.CREDITSProduction: Sonic Acts & Maryam Monalisa GharaviHost: Margarita OsipianAdditional help: Danne Hekman, Mark den Hoed, Karl Klomp, Karl Moubarak, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, as well as Hackers & Designers and The Hmm.Part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.Sonic Acts is supported by Creative Industries Fund NL, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) and Paradiso.