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With the rise of easy-to-use software and the democratization of coding, data visualization has increasingly become a companion to visual storytelling. In this panel we will explore its impact on fields as diverse as news or fine arts, and its role in conveying complex information and emotions to a large audience.
Panelists
Ekene Ijeoma, artist and designer
Igal Nassima, Hacker in Residence, Betaworks
Ramsey Nasser, software engineer, designer, and educator
Presented and moderated by Studio55 | @st55nyc.
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Bios
Ekene Ijeoma is an interaction designer, developer and researcher based in NYC. His projects explore the artistic and humanistic properties of data and algorithms. He has worked in multiple mediums and formats ranging from commercials and music videos to websites and installations. His award winning projects have been featured at MoMA, Design Museum, Istanbul Design Biennial, Vignelli Center and Salone del Mobile. Ekene is currently a designer in residence at Orbital. He has previously been an artist in residence at Fabrica and Ace Hotel, a visiting artist at Virginia Commonwealth University and School for Poetic Computation, a lecturer at Parsons and New York University, and a critic at Yale.
instagram: @ekeneijeoma
twitter: @ekeneijeoma
Igal Nassima is a programmer and artist from Istanbul, Turkey. His work focuses on using technology to explore communication networks, big data and the relationship between the virtual and the physical. Igal builds custom software and hardware tools to mine and process data that results in networked maps, videos or performances, and render cultural influences of new media visible.
Ramsey Nasser is a computer scientist, game designer, and educator based in Brooklyn. He researches programming languages by building tools to make computation more expressive and implementing projects that question the basic assumptions we make about code itself. His games playfully push people out of their comfort zones, and are often written in experimental programming languages of his design. A former Eyebeam fellow and a member of Kitchen Table Coders, when he is not reasoning about abstract unintuitive machines, he builds and maintains vintage motorcycles.
twitter: @ra
