THE BIG PICTURE – Symposium – Overview Effect

Michael Knoll — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:37:52 +0000

SEED has put together the opening session. The point of departure is the proverbial Overview Effect triggered by the appearance in the mass media of the first pictures of our planet taken from outer space. Thus, the subject here is the role of pictorial media in forming, imparting and propagating images of the world as well as the question of which visualization techniques we can utilize in our efforts to understand, depict and get across the complex interrelationships of our time.

Fr/Fri 31. 8. 10:00 – 13:00
Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

10:00 – 10:15 Gerfried Stocker (AT)
10:15 – 10:40 Adam Bly (CA)
10:40 – 11:00 Johan Bollen (BE/US)
11:00 – 11:20 Manuel Lima (PT/US)
11:20 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 11:50 Paola Antonelli (IT/US)
11:50 – 12:10 Golan Levin (US)
12:10 – 12:40 Panel
12:40 – 13:00 Discussion
Moderated by Adam Bly (CA)

Adam Bly (CA) is the founder and CEO of Seed, an online science magazine, as well as the initiator of the visualizing.org data visualization site. He has given speeches and made presentations at the World Economic Forum, MoMA, the Royal Society and Harvard University.

Johan Bollen (BE/US) studied experimental psychology. He teaches at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing. His specialties are data mining, digital libraries, infometrics, and adaptive information system architectures.

Manuel Lima (PT/US) works for Microsoft Bing. He initiated VisualComplexity.com for the mapping of complex networks and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Prior to Microsoft, his employers included Nokia and Siemens. Lima is one of the leading experts in information visualization.

Paola Antonelli (IT/US) is a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and one of the world’s foremost experts in contemporary architecture & design. She has designed numerous exhibitions (e.g. Workspheres and SAFE) and written books about design. She teaches the history of design at UCLA and Harvard.

Golan Levin (US) designs artifacts and experiences that investigate new forms of expressing reactions. In his work, he concentrates on the design of systems to simultaneously produce, modify and depict images and sounds. Levin teaches and does research at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the recipient of an Award of Distinction in the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica’s Hybrid Art category.

Manuel Lima – THE BIG PICTURE

THE BIG PICTURE – Symposium – Overview Effect