Gravesend Library
303 Avenue X, Brooklyn, NY 11223
The Protest We Never Had by Mimi Onuoha begins from the premise that by using surveillance infrastructure to profit off of consumers’ data, tech companies like Google and Facebook have quietly committed some of the greatest acts of digital dispossession of our time. Because these acts unfolded slowly over time and under the hood of popular sites, they have never warranted a full-scale protest from the public. The Protest We Never Had is a series of protest signs designed for this exact purpose: rallying against the structural digital order of our day. The signs may be used and taken by community members in pursuit of this aim.
About Mimi Onuoha
Mimi Onuoha is a Brooklyn-based artist and researcher investigating the social results of data collection and computational categorization. Her work uses code, text, performance, and objects to explore missing data and the ways in which people are abstracted, represented, and classified.
About Gravesend Library
Brooklyn Public Library’s Gravesend Library opened in 1962. In 2001, the branch underwent a $1.5 million renovation that included new lighting, furniture, shelving, art objects and public computers. Gravesend library hosts a monthly book discussion club for adults. Gravesend serves its diverse community with large collections of Russian, Chinese and other multilingual materials.