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Reminder: tonight, 9/22 at 6:30 PM, Jer Thorp \”Living in Data\”

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    Jason Nielsen
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    Hi all,

    A reminder about tonight\’s talk, \”Living in Data,\” with Jer Thorp at 6:30 PM if you can make it. Co-sponsored by the MS Program in Data Analysis and Vis (with the DH MA Program, GCDI, and the GC Mina Rees Library). See below or the attached poster for registration link (zoom details sent after registration):

    The MS Program in Data Analysis and Visualization and the Mina Rees Library invite you to attend a talk next week by data artist Jer Thorpe.

    Living in Data
    Jer Thorp
    September 22, 6:30pm-8pm
    Register on Eventbrite

    Abstract:
    To live in data is to be incessantly extracted from, to be classified and categorized, statisti-fied, sold and surveilled. Data (our data) is mined and processed for profit, power and political gain. Our clicks and likes and footsteps feed new digital methods of control. In this talk Jer will propose a variety of answers to a crucial question of our time: how do we stop passively inhabiting data, and become active citizens of it?

    Speaker Bio:
    Jer Thorp is an artist, writer, and teacher living in New York City. He is best known for designing the algorithm to place the nearly 3,000 names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. Jer was the New York Times\’ first Data Artist in Residence, is a National Geographic Explorer, and in 2017 and 2018 served as the Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. Jer is one of the world\’s foremost data artists, and is a leading voice for the ethical use of big data.

    Jer’s data-inspired artwork has been shown around the world, including most recently in New York’s Times Square, at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, at the Ars Electronica Center in Austria, and at the National Seoul Museum in Korea. His work has also appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Scientific American, The New Yorker, Popular Science, Fast Company, Business Week, Popular Science, Discover, WIRED and The Harvard Business Review.

    Jer is a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, and an alumnus of the World Economic Foundation’s Global Agenda Council on Design and Innovation. He is an adjunct Professor in New York University’s renowned Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), and is the Co-Founder of The Office for Creative Research. In 2015, Canadian Geographic named Jer one of Canada’s Greatest Explorers.

    Jer’s book \’Living in Data’ is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is in bookstores now.

    Co-Sponsored by GC Digital Initiatives and the M.A. Program in Digital Humanities

    Register: http://cuny.is/livingindata

    Best,
    Jason

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