Data Improvisations, curated by Daria Tsoupikova, opens at SAIC

IEEE VIS is the premier forum for advances in scientific and information visualization. VISAP'15, the Arts Program running in parallel, was organized by Daria Tsoupikova, Associate Professor in the UIC School of Design.

Data Improvisations, the VISAP exhibitiaon, features 11 installations, 10 demos, and a liver performance that explore the dynamics of contemporary and emerging data as a primary theme: how social media feeds erupt with new content, how robotic architecture can acknowledge movement or emotion, or how compositional algorithms can creatively respond to live inputs of musical sound. Can these types of artistic explorations offer insight into thinking about the effective representation of time in visualization research contexts?

Installations by: Kevin Badni, Donna Cox, Benedikt Groß, Haru Ji, Eduardo Kac, Scott Kildall, Joey Lee, Ben Ridgway, Dan Sandin, Emilio Vavarella, Graham Wakefield, Jo Wood, and Rebecca Ruige Xu.

Live coding perfomance by: Charlie Roberts 

Demonstrations by: Meng Chih Chiang, Bruce Campbell, Pauline De Chalendar, Linda Deck, Samuel Degrande, Gershon Dublon, Julie Freeman, Laurent Grisoni, Roland Haring, Peter Holzkorn, Andreas Jalsovec, Kurt Kaminski, Julie Lein, QianSheng Li, Michael Mayr, Brian Mayton, Shannon McMullen, Nicolas Naveau, Dietmar Offenhuber, Emiko Ogawa, Joseph Paradiso, Francesca Samsel, and Fabian Winkler.

The catalog for Data Improvisations was designed by Jack Henrie Fisher, Assistant Professor of UIC Graphic Design.

The exhibition runs from October 25– 30 at the LeRoy Neiman Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibition opening
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
7-9p
SAIC Sharp Building
37 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 201

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 
1-2p
Panel Discussion: Creative Challenges at the Intersections of Visualization Research and New Media Arts
Featuring Eduardo Kac, Donna Cox, Dan Sandin, and Jo Wood