This three-year collaborative project includes a research seminar series and related podcasts which investigate data ‘materiality’. Materiality is seen here not only as the ways in which data crystallises into physical forms and depends on material technical and social infrastructures, but also the related ways in which data comes to matter, in and through practical action, collective imaginaries, or biological conditions.

Topics of interest include proliferating networks of data centres, fibre-optic cables and server farms that underpin our data usage, but also perhaps less tangible or apparent infrastructures of data materialities that might include, for instance, digital objects and artefacts, from network protocols to markup languages, as well as the labour and organizational structures putting data to work.