Title:
Living in Data
Living in Data
| dc.contributor.author | Thorp, Jer | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. GVU Center | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | New York University. Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | The Office for Creative Research | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-04T01:27:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-02-04T01:27:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-10-21 | |
| dc.description | Presented online via Bluejeans Events on October 21, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. | en_US |
| dc.description | 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 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. | en_US |
| dc.description | Runtime: 52:29 minutes | en_US |
| dc.description.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? | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 52:29 minutes | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/66235 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | GVU Brown Bag | |
| dc.subject | Data | en_US |
| dc.subject | Politics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Surveillance | en_US |
| dc.title | Living in Data | en_US |
| dc.type | Moving Image | |
| dc.type.genre | Lecture | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | GVU Center | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | GVU Brown Bag Seminars | |
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| relation.isSeriesOfPublication | 34739bfe-749f-4bc5-a716-21883cd1bbd0 |
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