Sawyer Seminar
Urban Art and the Network: Data Symposium
How does data, which has shaped the urban environment and the ways we inhabit cities as individuals and as collectivities, advance intelligent urbanization? In an era when data analysis so thoroughly informs urban design, urban policy, and urban development, how can we understand the questions it raises and the questions it evades? And how can artistic or design practices defamiliarize the dynamics by which data forms and transforms the urban? This symposium foregrounds such questions in the effort to think across the digital, the material, and the spatial.
With Patrick Jagoda (Associate Professor, UChicago), Laura Kurgan (Associate Professor of Architecture, Columbia University,) Clare Lyster (Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago) Jason Salavon (Associate Professor, UChicago) and Julia Scher (Professor of Multimedia and Performance, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne.)