princeton NEW JERSEY
On April 4–5 Liam Young hosts “Data Drama” at Princeton University School of Architecture. Across 2 days 20 speakers will come together to discuss the spatial possibilities and consequences of big data and the network.
symposium: “Data Drama,” curated by Liam YOUNG.
Friday, 04/04–Saturday, 04/05
Betts Auditorium / Princeton SOA
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
To accompany the presentations Andrew Blum, author of Tubes: A Journey to the Centre of the Internet, will be coordinating a field expedition through the wilds of New Jersey to visit a series of local data centres, critical engineer Julian Oliver will be running a workshop on the tools and tactics for asserting and defending civil liberties in the networked domain and the Princeton SOA Gallery will be screening a collection of live data visualisations from renowned media artists. The event is free and open to the public. (Although, please RSVPfor the workshop and field expedition.) For details head [HERE] where the event will also be live streamed.
FRIDAY, 12:00 /// THE WEIGHT OF DATA
Matt Jones [Interaction Design Director, Google Creative Lab and ex principle of BERG]
Andrew Blum [author of Tubes: A Journey to the centre of the Internet]
Neil Sheehan [Data centre Architect]
Forest Meggers [Assistant Professor Princeton University School of Architecture]
1000 - 1800 WORKSHOP WITH JULIAN OLIVER
1330 FIELD EXPEDITION THROUGH NEW JERSEY
1900 CONFERENCE DINER DINNER
SATURDAY, 10:00 /// ANOTHER PUBLIC
Kate Crawford [Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research and Visiting Professor, MIT Center for Civic Media]
Usman Haque [Founder of Umbrellium and internet of things data infrastructure Pachube]
Metahaven [Designers and Editors of Black Transparency: The right to know in the age of Mass Surveillance]
Mario Carpo [Architectural Historian] Respondent
WITH LIVE SCANNING DEMO BY SCANLAB
SATURDAY, 11:30 /// DISTANCE IS DEAD: POST GEOGRAPHY AND THE NON STATE
Benjamin Bratton [Director of The Center for Design and Geopolitics]
James Bridle [Artist and founder Of Dronestagram and the New Aesthetic]
Kevin Slavin [Founder of the Playful Systems group at MIT’s Media Lab]
SATURDAY, 13:00 /// LUNCH BREAK- DATA DRAMA GALLERY
SATURDAY, 14:00 /// ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES
Joanne McNeil [Techno political Writer and Researcher]
Adam Harvey [Countersurveillance fashion designer]
Scanlab [Specialists in Large scale 3D laser scanning]
Julian Oliver [critical engineer]
Jeffrey Kipnis [Architectural critic and theorist, Professor OSU and Princeton University]- Respondent
WITH COUNTER SURVEILLANCE MAKEOVER BY ADAM HARVEY
SATURDAY, 16:30 /// DATA PROPHETS
Tim Maughan [Science Fiction Author]
Ivan Poupyrev [Project leader at Google’s Advance Technologies and Projects Division]
Ben Lewis [Director of Google and the World Brain]
WITH FILM SCREENING BY BEN LEWIS
