{"650000":{"#nid":"650000","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Jer Thorp \u2014 Living in Data","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo live in data is to be incessantly extracted from,\u0026nbsp;to be classified and categorized, statisti-fied, sold and surveilled. Data (our data) is mined and processed for profit, power and political gain. Our clicks and likes and footsteps feed new digital methods of control. In this talk Jer will propose a variety of answers to a crucial question of our time: how do we stop passively inhabiting data, and become active citizens of it?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJer Thorp is an artist, writer and teacher living in New York City. He is best known for designing the algorithm to place the nearly 3,000 names on the 9\/11 Memorial in Manhattan. Jer was the New York Times\u0026#39; first Data Artist in Residence, is a National Geographic Explorer, and in 2017 and 2018 served as the Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. Jer is one of the world\u0026#39;s foremost data artists, and is a leading voice for the ethical use of big data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJer\u0026rsquo;s data-inspired artwork has been shown around the world, including most recently in New York\u0026rsquo;s Times Square, at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, at the Ars Electronica Center in Austria, and at the National Seoul Museum in Korea. His work has also appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Scientific American, The New Yorker, Popular Science, Fast Company, Business Week, Popular Science, Discover, WIRED and The Harvard Business Review.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nJer is a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, and an alumnus of the World Economic Foundation\u0026rsquo;s Global Agenda Council on Design and Innovation. He is an adjunct Professor in New York University\u0026rsquo;s renowned Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), and is the Co-Founder of The Office for Creative Research. In 2015, Canadian Geographic named Jer one of Canada\u0026rsquo;s Greatest Explorers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJer\u0026rsquo;s book \u0026#39;Living in Data\u0026rsquo; is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is in bookstores now.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/xevxxyap\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/xevxxyap\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/events\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Fall\u0026nbsp;2021\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJer Thorp is Adjunct Professor at New York University, an artist, writer and teacher. He will discuss his book \u0026#39;Living in Data\u0026rsquo; and a crucial question of our time: how do we stop passively inhabiting data, and become active citizens of it?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This seminar discusses how we live with new streams of data and statistics, individually and as a society."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2021-08-23 20:46:36","changed_gmt":"2021-10-29 19:12:12","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-10-21T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2021-10-21T14:20:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-10-21T14:20:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-10-21 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-10-21 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-10-21 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"650001":{"id":"650001","type":"image","title":"Jer Thorp","body":null,"created":"1629752661","gmt_created":"2021-08-23 21:04:21","changed":"1629752661","gmt_changed":"2021-08-23 21:04:21","alt":"","file":{"fid":"246711","name":"JerThorp.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JerThorp.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JerThorp.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":353831,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/JerThorp.jpg?itok=z2RIlRa0"}}},"media_ids":["650001"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}