Within mediated conditions, at some level everything becomes reduced to data. How do art practices collect data, circulate it, and themselves become data? How do artists and organizations reckon with the production and circulation of knowledge in increasingly online media environments? Running with Concepts: The Mediatic Edition examined how forms of digital storytelling, ethics, access, governance, and data sovereignty are being practiced in other disciplines. By looking at how media-makers across diverse fields are engaging with new technological tools and practices, The Mediatic Edition considered how these paradigms map onto artistic practice. In Back Up Your Data!, respondents to Running with Concepts: The Mediatic Edition reflect on new insights from an increasingly mediated arts ecology, and identify ongoing needs within the sector to engage with dominant tech paradigms—such as platform capitalism, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and viral media.

Working with Concepts is a series of publications that report on workshops and events organized and hosted by the Blackwood. These programs position concepts as useful tools for fostering advocacy, dialogue, and resource-sharing across disciplines and sectors.