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A symposium on the relationship between art, design, and the politics of information. Designers, artists, scientists discuss the aesthetic, ethical and spatial dimensions of information and its relation to power, the production of knowledge, and construction of urban spaces.
Participants
Conversations
- Ron Burnett
- Amanda Cox
- Philip DeCamp
- Benjamin Mako Hill
- Francis Irving
- Marcell Mars
- Casey Reas
- Florian Schneider
- Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg
- Usman Haque
- Jose Luis de Vicente
- Jeff Warren
Organized by Amber Frid-Jimenez and Ben Dalton

Hosted by Kunstøgskolen i Bergen / Bergen National Academy of Art & Design (KHiB) in collaboration with the Jan van Eyck Academie, and the University of Bergen with support from the Verdikt programme of the Norges Forskningsråd, KHIB Research Council, and KHIB Departments of Design and Fine Art. Special thanks to Mona Storseth, Einar Wiig and Cecilia Gelin.

Ph.D., University of Chicago

February 10th, 2012 by

Dissertation: The Heat Budget Over a Corn Field, which measured the difference between the amount of energy absorbed and the amount of energy lost in a corn field. Led him to think about the Earth's heat budget. Data is political.

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