Collective Care

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 Data
As 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)

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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