Call Proposals: Indigenous Data Communications Exhibit

The Indige Lab Network invites researchers, artists, makers, and community storytellers to submit work for the Indigenous Data Communications Exhibit, a curated online exhibit celebrating Indigenous data shifters and re‑makers.

We seek works that reinterpret, reframe, and transform data through Indigenous knowledges, worldviews, and lived relationships with place. The purpose of this exhibit is to showcase Indigenous ways of drawing on our knowledge systems to engage with, analyze, and create data. We invite submissions that highlight diverse Indigenous dataworlds.

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Our curatorial practices will centre the protection of intellectual property, relational accountability, and accessibility. We will prioritize contributor control over determining how the exhibit shares their work(s).

• Demonstrate Indigenous methods or methodologies in research, knowledge creation, and/or community collaboration.
• Show respectful, community‑centered engagement with Indigenous Peoples and/or Nations.
• Align with OCAP® and/or CARE Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles.
• Draw from work that is completed or in progress.

• Are about us, without us.
• Do not demonstrate alignmenticurate with Indigenous Data Sovereignty.
• Overemphasize Indigenous victim hood, damage, or trauma.

To submit an application, please complete the form here by January 31st 2026 11:59PM EST:

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