Artist Talk: Traces of Belonging - The Data Story of Chinese Immigrants in the Bay Area

​5 - 7 pm: Artist talk + Refreshment and social.
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Traces of Belonging: The Data Story of Chinese Immigrants in the Bay Area

​A data visualization exhibition about the history, identity, and transformation of Chinese immigrants in the Bay Area. Generation after generation, Chinese immigrants came to the Bay to seek opportunity and build a better life. In turn, they built the city. From the first Chinese immigrant to arrive in Chinatown—a maid to a merchant family in 1848—to today, when almost one in ten residents of the Bay Area identifies as Chinese, the exhibition unveils little-known facts and hidden patterns in the surviving, living and thriving of the Chinese community—all through data.

​Youyou Zhou, a journalist and data visualization designer, charts the history of SF Chinatown and the Bay Area Chinese community through a series of timelines, maps, and data posters.

​The exhibition opens at 3 pm on July 3, followed by an artist talk at 5 pm. Throughout the run, an interactive data installation invites visitors to contribute their own stories to the living history of the Chinese immigrant community today.

​Come sit with the data. Add your own.