LUNCHTIME TALKS: ARTISTS USING DATA / SERIES OF TALKS 2021
Curated and Moderated by Miya Masaoka • Sponsored by the Collaboratory Fellows Fund
FREE REGISTRATION • OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Talk #1: Douglas Repetto: "Hothouse Entropy and Homegrown Data" Friday, May 21, 12–1 pm ET
The world makes itself fresh every moment. I make sculpture and installations using "live" processes and internally generated data-streams to create physical objects and ongoing experiences.
Free registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/douglas-repetto-artists-using-data-talk-tickets-154600370871
Douglas Repetto is an artist and teacher. His work, including sculpture, installation, performance, recordings, and software is presented internationally. He is the founder of a number of art/community-oriented groups including dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, organism: making art with living systems, and the music-dsp mailing list and website. Douglas taught for years at Columbia University, where he was the Director of Research for the Computer Music Center and later, the founding director of the Sound Arts MFA program in the School of the Arts. He lives in Memphis and NYC with his wife, writer Amy Benson, their tween son, a thriving worm bin, and a small garden. (N.B. the tween son is a human, not a thriving wormbin.)
https://www.instagram.com/d.repetto
For more info: soundart [at] columbia.edu
upcoming talks:
Talk #2: Toni Dove: "Embodied Machines and Smart Databases: Swimming in Time"
Friday, May 28, 12–1 pm ET
Talk #3: Mendi + Keith Obadike: "Data Songs: Listening to Numbers, Listening to Light"
Friday, June 4, 12–1 pm ET
Talk #4: Wafaa Bilal: "Performing Change
Friday, June 11, 12–1 pm ET
Jointly founded by the Data Science Institute and Columbia Entrepreneurship, The Collaboratory@Columbia is a university-wide program that seeks to provide the resources and tools required to ensure that all Columbia University students receive the education and training that they need to lead in today’s data-rich world.