STOLEN DATA was a curated exhibition exploring theft, authorship, and ownership in the context of net art, NFTs, and digital culture. The show grew out of an initial concept that shifted as the participating artists’ ideas and histories took center stage, effectively “stealing” the curatorial frame and transforming it into a collective investigation of what it means to take, copy, or appropriate in the digital age.

The exhibition featured Vuk Ćosić, whose early act of “stealing” an online net art exhibition to keep it free resurfaced when that same work appeared as NFTs offered by an imposter. In response, he presented a video essay unpacking the layers of that theft. Rodolfo Peraza contributed works that “stole time,” using backwards-running clocks that count away from dates people might wish to erase, with each piece functioning as a poetic gesture of disappearance distributed across the web. Rhea Myers examined the blockchain’s promise of authenticity through her Certificate of Inauthenticity, revealing how ideas of ownership are often sustained less by facts than by repetition, belief, and social consensus. Together, the works positioned the exhibition as a space where curatorial authority, artistic control, and digital property remained deliberately unstable.