6PM: PREP FOR “POWER PLAYS WITH DATA” PANEL ON MARCH 27 7PM: GROUP MEETINGS Zara Rahman, “2016: A Year of Data-Driven Confusion,” Model View Culture
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March 6: Panel 1: Documentary and Difference
[Image: via the Chicago Film Society’s Leader Ladies Project] GENEVIEVE YUE, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media, Eugene Lang College Genevieve Yue is an assistant
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March 13: Prep for Panel 3 (April 17: Media and Thermodynamics) + Academic Skills Workshop 2: Thesis
6PM: ROBBIE POWERS STOPS BY TO DISCUSS FALL 2017 REGISTRATION (To accommodate Robbie’s special visit, our class might go a bit long tonight. Please try
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March 27: Panel 2: Power Plays with Data
Image: UNDP Ukraine, via Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0 ZARA RAHMAN, Fellow, Data & Society Zara is a researcher, writer, and linguist who is interested in
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April 3: Prep for Panel 4 (April 24: Expanding Soundscape) + Academic Skills Workshop 3: Resumes, CVs + Cover Letters
[The above image, by the way, shows contact microphones attached to bridge cables, a technique integral to Kevin T. Allen’s Bridge film.] 6PM: JENNIFER MACDONALD
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April 10: Prep for Panel 5 (May 1: Everyday Innovation: Africa) + Academic Skills Workshop 4: Internships Etc.
6PM: WORKSHOP: Internships, Networking, Social Media Profiles + Portfolios, with Robbie Powers, Director of Student Affairs, and Career Services’ Lisa Romeo (Here’s Robbie’s and Lisa’s
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April 17: Panel 3: Media and Thermodynamics
TEGA BRAIN, Assistant Professor, SUNY Purchase; Fellow, Data & Society Tega Brain is an artist making eccentric engineering, work that intersects art, ecology & engineering. Eccentric
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April 24: Panel 4: Expanding Soundscape: Experiments in Field Recording
KEVIN T. ALLEN, filmmaker and sound artist Kevin T. Allen is a filmmaker and sound artist who makes ethnographically imbued “sound-films” in Vietnam, Sri Lanka,
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May 1: Panel 5: Everyday Forms of Innovation: Africa Contemporary
SEAN JACOBS, Associate Professor, International Affairs, The New School; Founder and Editor, Africa is a Country Sean Jacobs is on the international affairs faculty of
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May 8: Recap
[Image: Antoni Jażwiński’s Tableau Muet, based on the original “Polish System” for charting historical information, later revised in France and the United States, 1834, via
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