[-empyre-] Week One on "Feminist Data Visualization" -- empyre discussion July 2016

Fri Jul 1 18:12:20 AEST 2016

For the first week, I’m happy to introduce four guests.  In anticipation of each their introductory posts - please feel welcome to respond to them as soon as the posts appear in your email feed. 

Please welcome Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren Klein, Erin Leland, and Lee Mackinnon  (not in any order of appearance)—for week one,  JULY 1-8

-cm 

------------Catherine d’Ignazio kanarinka at ikatun.org <mailto:kanarinka at ikatun.org> 

Catherine D’Ignazio, a.k.a. kanarinka, is an Assistant Professor of Civic Media and Data Visualization Storytelling in the Journalism Department at Emerson College. She is a researcher, artist and software developer. Her work focuses on data literacy, media innovation and civic art. It takes the form of public art, design, code, classes, workshops and writing.  Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation, Turbulence.org <http://turbulence.org/>, the LEF Foundation, and Dream It, Code It, Win It. In 2009, she was a finalist for the Foster Prize at the ICA Boston. Her work has been exhibited at the Eyebeam Center for Art & Technology, Museo d’Antiochia of Medellin, and the Venice Biennial. Professor D’Ignazio is currently a Fellow at the Emerson Engagement Lab and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Civic Media. She is one of the many Directors of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things. https://civic.mit.edu/feminist-data-visualization <https://civic.mit.edu/feminist-data-visualization>

----------Lauren Klein  lauren.klein at lmc.gatech.edu <mailto:lauren.klein at lmc.gatech.edu>

Lauren Klein is an assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab. She received her A.B. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research interests include early American literature and culture, food studies, media studies, and the digital humanities.With Matthew K. Gold, she edits Debates in the Digital Humanities, a hybrid print/digital publication stream from the University of Minnesota Press. Her writing has also appeared in American Literature, Early American Literature, American Quarterly, and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (formerly Literary and Linguistic Computing), among other venues. She serves as co-PI on the NEH Office of Digital Humanities-funded TOME project, a tool to support the interactive exploration of text-based archives.http://lklein.com/2014/12/visualization-as-argument/ <http://lklein.com/2014/12/visualization-as-argument/>

--------------Erin Leland  erin.leland1 at gmail.com <mailto:erin.leland1 at gmail.com>

Erin Leland is an artist based in New York, working with photography, writing, and built installation. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from The University of Illinois at Chicago in 2010 and has since held residencies at The Watermill Center, The Banff Centre, and The Villa Waldberta. Her photographs have been included in group exhibitions at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Roots & Culture in Chicago, and Ewing Gallery at The University of Tennessee, among others; solo exhibitions include Everything Is Everything at Michael Strogoff Gallery in Marfa, Texas and Traces to Form Concrete Thoughts at Weltraum 26 in Munich, Germany. Her fictional writings have been published through Mercer Union and White Walls in the artist compendium Blast Counterblast and through contributed arts writings to the blog Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk. Erin is Gallery Associate at Bridget Donahue Gallery in New York. http://www.erinleland.com/site/Erin_Leland.html <http://www.erinleland.com/site/Erin_Leland.html>

---------------Lee Mackinnon lmackinnon at aub.ac.uk <mailto:lmackinnon at aub.ac.uk>

Lee Mackinnon is a writer, artist and lecturer working in the fields of comparative media studies, art and technology. Her research explores new forms of politics and subjectivity brought about by novel technological configurations. She is currently completing a PhD at Goldsmiths College London that considers love’s algorithmic, computational capacities. Work from this project has appeared in the book Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in the Age of Big Data (Routledge 2015) and in eflux, Love Machine’s and the Tinder Bot Bildungsroman (74: 2016) http://www.e-flux.com/journal/love-machines-and-the-tinder-bot-bildungsroman/ <http://www.e-flux.com/journal/love-machines-and-the-tinder-bot-bildungsroman/>   She has also published articles that explore the politics of data visualization (Toward an Algorithmic Realism in Leonardo 2014 MIT press) and that highlight the ethics of photographic representation in the context of the art gallery (Gaming in Waziristan in Third Text, Routledge 2012).
 Lee has previously exhibited visual work at the Bloomberg Space in London; Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark; and Temporary Autonomous Art, recently giving talks at the W139 Gallery, Amsterdam; Parasol Foundation, London; Future Legends in Sweden and at the 2016 London Conference in Critical Thought, Birkbeck College, University of London. 

Christina McPhee

http://christinamcphee.net

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