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Month: November 2012
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New MOOC Introduces You to the Wonderful World of Infographics and Data Visualization
Hans Rosling, a professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, became something of an internet celebrity because of his knack for presenting data in extremely imaginative ways. As you’ll see above, he’s the master of data visualization. Now, thanks to a new MOOC from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin, you can develop some of these skills yourself. The free course, Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization, begins on January 12th and runs 6 weeks. The course is not taught by Rosling (sigh), but the current version of the course has drawn more than 2,000 people from 109 countries. Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization has been added to our collection of our Complete List of MOOCs and Certificate Courses.
Superstorm Sandy: Response and Recovery
How can design offer solutions and pathways for prevention, recovery and rebuilding efforts in the wake of Superstorm Sandy? Join Cynthia E. Smith, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s Curator of Socially Responsible Design, and representatives from Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Architecture for Humanity-NY, Brightbox, and Solar One as they discuss the effects from the superstorm for the city and the east coast.
Date: Thursday, December 13, 2012 – 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Venue: Cooper-Hewitt Design Center, 111 Central Park North
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/events/superstorm-sandy-response-and-recovery
‘K Karl Holmqvist, Book Launch and Reading
Artists Space : Books & Talks
55 Walker Street
$5 Entrance Donation
Members Free
Limited capacity, entrance on a first come, first served basis
To mark the New York launch of his recent publication ‘K, Berlin-based artist Karl Holmqvist will give a reading at Artists Space : Books & Talks.
Holmqvist’s work centers on the printed and spoken word, extracting meaning out of often oblique textual arrangements with tools such as humor, repetition and vocal cadence. Forsaking linearity for a networked approach to language, Holmqvist’s “writing” connects words through their printed aesthetic qualities and aural pronunciations. A collage of cultural references and quotidian language implicates a direct call and response with the matter of contemporary life. To produce ‘K, a large part of the book’s material was also gathered as “loans” from historical movements that emphasized a graphic and visual approach to text, such as Futurism, Vorticism, and Lettrism, as well as from the work of contemporary artists such as Shannon Ebner and Ferdinand Kriwet.
Holmqvist’s work has been shown at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2012); Établissement d’en face projects, Brussels (2012); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2010); and included in Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011).
‘K is designed by the artist along with Joshua Schenkel, and published as a collaboration between Kunsthalle Zürich and Bergen Kunsthall, with JRP Ringier.