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SUMMARY:Projects in Visualizing Data 1975-2017
DTSTART:20171215T150000
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DESCRIPTION:George Legrady\, UCSB\nGeorge Legrady is Distinguished Profess
 or and Director of the Experimental Visualization Lab in the Media Arts & 
 Technology graduate program at the University of California\, Santa Barbar
 a. He is an internationally exhibiting digital media artist\, and a John S
 imon Guggenheim fellow in Visual Arts (2016). During the fall of 2017\, he
  is a visiting scholar in the DiasporasLab at Télécom ParisTech\, Instit
 ut Mines-Télécom\, Paris where he will analyze the internet searches of 
 the general public at the Centre Pompidou library.\nThe translation of mul
 tivariate abstract data into visualization first requires a process of cla
 ssification which is inherently culturally defined\, given that systems of
  classification tend to be shaped by discipline-specific perspectives\, cu
 ltural priorities and historical circumstances. The presentation will addr
 ess the evolution of methodologies in my artistic works that explore class
 ification and the translation of information into visual experiences from 
 pre-digital photographic works such as “A Catalog of Found Objects” (1
 975) to interactive works that organize cultural data as in the “Anecdot
 ed Archive from the Cold War (1992)”\, to installations that collect dat
 a from the viewing public such as “Pockets Full of Memories” (2001-200
 7)\, and “Cell Tango” (2006-2009).\n \nThe presentation will then shi
 ft to explore in detail the artwork “Making Visible the Invisible” (20
 05-present)\, a commissioned work at the Seattle Public Library\, a data v
 isualization project that receives its data hourly from the interactions o
 f library patrons through their check-outs and check-in of books\, cds\, a
 nd movies. This artwork began operations in September 2005\, and is expect
 ed to be active until 2019. The unusual aspect of this project is that it 
 collects data by the hour\, approximately 30\,000 per day\, 8 million per 
 day\, and has so far built-up a history of over 90 million checkouts\, a d
 istinctly insightful historical record tracking the cultural interests of 
 an urban community\, and the transformation of the library through the 2nd
  and 3rd decade following the introduction of the internet. The artwork wi
 ll be described\, and then follow with results of a course focused on visu
 alizing the relations of data and explorations thru the language of aesthe
 tics applied to information retrieval. The course has been offered annuall
 y since 2006 in which topics such as cultural trends\, and system anomalie
 s have been explored through the collected Seattle library data.\n 
LOCATION:INM 10 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=INM10
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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