Data artivism is the mobilizaton of art and craft as a form of resistance and as a method to visualize data.
Artistic interventions with feminicide data use techniques such as embroidery, illustrations, or actions in public spaces. They humanize data through acts of memory that seek to actively and publicly remember women who were victims to feminicide.
By going beyond conventional data visualization, the intersection of art and data produces works that generate awareness, personal reflection, and collective memory.
Publications
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Data-Inflected Visions of Feminicide (Suárez Val, 2025)
This paper advances the notion of “data-inflected visions” to show how various visual representations may come come to be imagined as data, and how doing so opens up different meanings for the political and affective work of data. The visuality of social issues is produced through competing hegemonic and alternative visions, and conventional visualization is…
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Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action (D’Ignazio, 2024)
What isn’t counted doesn’t count. And dominant institutions systematically fail to account for feminicide, the gender-based murder of women and girls, including cisgender and transgender women. In the face of this failure, Counting Feminicide foregrounds the work of data activists across the Americas who are documenting these kinds of murders and challenging the reigning logic…
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Data artivism and feminicide (Suárez Val et al, 2023)
Suárez Val, H., D’Ignazio, C., Acosta Romero, J., Teng, M. Q., & Fumega, S. (2023). Data artivism and feminicide. Big Data & Society, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231215356 Data has become a key format for activists to visibilizar (make visible/call attention to) and denounce social issues. Drawing on the concept of “artivism,” we name as data artivism those works…
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Vibrant Maps (Suárez Val, 2018)
In recent years, feminist activists in various Latin American countries have been creating digital maps of feminicide —the gender-related violent deaths of women. The intersection of activism and mapping has been explored by scholars and activists who have addressed the performative, participatory and political nature of mapping, and by feminist scholars who have analysed and…
Community events
Tell stories with data
At the 2020 meeting, the Colombian organization DataSketch shared the experience of developing visualizations to tell stories about gender violence and feminicides in the country, presented by Mariana Villamizar Rodríguez and Juliana Galvis Nieto.
Visibilities: art and data on feminicide
This event featured two panel discussions. “More than Numbers: Voices of Families of Femicide Victims” and “Data and Artistic Practices in the Fight Against Feminicide“.