Joint Dataviz Meetup

Dear Dataviz Belgium Members,
Long time no see! We hope you are all safe and sound.

For obvious reasons we have not organised any meetups the last 2 years, but this does not mean Dataviz Belgium is dead. On the contrary, we are alive and kicking ;-)

Recently we were approached by Randy Krum, Dataviz expert and among other things author of the Cool Infographics newsletter. Randy runs the Dallas/Fort Worth and Austin Dataviz Meetup groups in the US. Randy initiated the idea to organise joint virtual events and we accepted with pleasure.

The first one is already next week, so little time to prepare anything on our side. Also the webinar is planned at 01:00 AM our time, but there will be a recording (we will send a link afterwards). In any case, we decided to introduce you to this initiative and hope you will appreciate it.

More news abut these joint events in the coming months.
Please find below the details of next week's event:

"I Want My Data", featuring Data Artist Laurie Frick.

Laurie just filmed a data art commercial with Lexus that you can see on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GpIm65ossuY

Laurie Frick is a data artist exploring the bumpy future of data captured about us. We’ve experienced the decade when humans shifted from mysterious beings - to big data algorithms, where everything about us can be known. Rather than worry, Frick envisions a time when personal data is a peek into our unique identity and just possibly a glimpse into our future. Using her background in high-technology Frick creates large scale art works, anticipating the day when patterns of behavior become patterned artworks and the mass of data will predict our lives. Her talk and deep experience with this topic make a compelling argument for why she wants her data, will companies give it back?

Hosted by the Dallas-Fort Worth DataViz Meetup Group, this virtual event is being shared with multiple DataViz Meetup groups across the world.

YOU MUST REGISTER TO GET THE LINK!
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8116382113827/WN_WkAFZ8gVSouY1xN8HX4Z-A

Do it now... you're not fully registered for the event until you've completed both steps. Zoom will send you the link to connect to the event.

To join the event you must have a registered Zoom account. If you don't have one, you can create one for free at https://zoom.us

SCHEDULE: (Brussels time)
1:00 AM - Group Announcements
1:15 AM - I Want My Data! - Laurie Frick
2:00 AM - Q&A

SPEAKER: Laurie Frick uses data to examine what we can know about ourselves. In her hand-built installations, drawings and small works she experiments with how we will consume the mass of data increasingly captured about us. Evidence of her engineering background and long-history in high-tech are seen in the deep data analysis and detailed explanations of how this future will unfold. Her work about the future of data were recently featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Atlantic and Wired Magazine; she has been invited to talk at Google, SXSW, Stanford and TEDx. Recipient of numerous residencies and awards, including Samsung Research, Yaddo, Bemis and Facebook. She holds an MFA from the New York Studio School, an MBA from University of Southern California and studied at NYU’s ITP program that melded art and technology into her current data work. Recent installations include public art in downtown Austin, CapitalOne, Facebook, Texas A&M and Michigan State University. She has shown at numerous galleries in Los Angeles in New York with inclusion in an ongoing exhibition at the Musee de Civilization in Quebec.
Born in Los Angeles, she lives and works in Austin, Texas.

Find more info at https://www.lauriefrick.com