In a dreamlike installation that draws on traditional Igbo cosmology, data cables (the veins through which digital information travels) are laced with culturally significant materials like spices, cloth, and soil that are intended to infuse them with new values. In the face of what Ọnụọha describes as “algorithmic violence” — the devastating impact on and exclusion of whole ‘categories’ of people inflicted by the calculations of automated decision-making systems — she conjures a whole new mythology to better govern the creation and maintenance of the technical infrastructure that connects the world. 

This installation is a gesture towards infusing modern technical systems with values and ontologies from past and different cultures, regions, people. It's currently on exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum  alongside These Networks In Our Skin, and is 

Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha's work questions and exposes the contradictory logics of technological progress. Through print, code, data, video, installation, and archival media, Ọnụọha offers new orientations for making sense of the seeming absences that define systems of labor, ecology and relations.

Ọnụọha's work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of Art (USA), the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (AUS), Mao Jihong Arts Foundation (China), La Gaitê Lyrique (France), Gropius Bau (Germany), The Photographers Gallery (UK), and the Atlanta Contemporary (USA) among others. Her public art engagements have been supported by Akademie der Kunst (Germany), the Royal College of Art (UK), the Rockefeller Foundation (USA), and Princeton University (USA). Her work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Musuem (UK).

Ọnụọha is a Creative Capital and Fulbright-National Geographic grantee. She is also the Co-Founder of A People's Guide To Tech, an artist-led organization that makes educational guides and workshops about emerging technology.