[Air-L] Cultured Data: A symposium on the intersection of data science and the arts and humanities

[Erin Glass]

Registration is open for the two-day Cultured Data Symposium
<http://cultureddata.net/cultured-data-symposium/> on data science and the
arts and humanities on *Friday, February 7 and Saturday, February 8* at UC
San Diego and the arts warehouse Bread & Salt in nearby Barrio Logan.

The symposium will consist of panels, keynotes, performances, and an arts
exhibition from academics, scientists, industry experts, and artists across
the country and as far as Singapore.  See the press release below for more
info.

Please feel free to pass on the invite to students, colleagues, friends, or
anyone you think might be interested. RSVPS are required
<https://cultureddata.net/attend/>.


New UC San Diego Symposium Stirs Dialogue Among Data Science and Arts and
Humanities ExpertsThe intersection of data and culture takes center stage
at UC San Diego’s Cultured Data Symposium

[image: Data code]

Photo by Markus Spiske/ unsplash.com

On February 7 and 8, UC San Diego will host the Cultured Data Symposium
<https://library.ucsd.edu/news-events/events/cultured-data-symposium/>,
bringing together experts from data science and the arts and humanities to
examine the emerging relationship between data and culture. The event will
provide a forum for artists, historians, philosophers, literary scholars,
political scientists, and computer and data scientists to engage with the
public, exploring how analytic techniques can unveil new understandings of
culture, and how the proliferation of data in everyday life changes how
culture is produced, distributed, and influenced.

“The growing digitization of the cultural record has given us a unique
opportunity to further explore how our new data generation, collection, and
analysis can result in what we’re calling ‘cultured data,’” said Erin
Glass, digital scholarship librarian at the UC San Diego Library. “This
symposium will shed light on how data scientists and cultural professionals
can work together to create a more just, informed, and culturally-rich
future.”

Organized by Glass and Robert Twomey, postdoctoral scholar at the Arthur C.
Clarke Center for Human Imagination and data science lecturer at UC San
Diego, the symposium will feature two keynote speakers (one per day), four
panels, an adjacent art exhibition, and sound performances. Speakers on
each panel will share perspectives from academia, industry, and the arts,
giving attendees a well-rounded viewpoint on the topic.

The two-day symposium has been thoughtfully programmed to include both on-
and off-campus locations:

   - Day 1 | Friday, February 7 | 1-7 PM
      - The first day of the symposium will be held at the Qualcomm
      Institute at UC San Diego and include a single panel on the
datafication of
      the cultural record, a keynote, live performances by artists
from Singapore
      and Nokia Bell Labs, a reception, and a self-guided tour of
      *STREAMING* <https://qi.ucsd.edu/events/event.php?id=2997>, an art
      exhibition which explores networked culture streams and their ecological
      and social costs.
      - Panel topic:
         - Datafication of the Cultural Record
      -

   Day 2 | Saturday, February 8 | 8:30 AM-7 PM
   - In an effort to engage the wider San Diego community, the second day
      of the symposium will be hosted off-campus at Bread & Salt
      <http://www.breadandsaltsandiego.com/>, a popular arts warehouse in
      Barrio Logan. The program includes three panels, a keynote, live
      performances, and a reception.
      - Panel topics:
         - Humanistic Theories of Data
         - A Generative Renaissance: New Data-Driven Modes of Authorship
         - Synthesis: The Future of Data and Culture

The keynote speakers for the symposium are Shannon Mattern, Ph.D.
<https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/shannon-mattern/>, professor of
anthropology at the New School for Social Research, who will be speaking on
Friday, and Jessica Marie Johnson, Ph.D.
<https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jessica-johnson/>, assistant professor
in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University, who will be
speaking on Saturday.

Professor Mattern will examine the ecological aspects of technology and
critical data reform, as well as the technical aspects of climate activism
surrounding the Green New Deal. Professor Johnson will be discussing her
critical research on race, slavery, data, and code studies. Other
highlighted speakers include Bradley Voytek, neural and data science
associate professor in the UC San Diego Department of Cognitive Science,
and Ryan Germick, principal designer at Google.

“Our goal in hosting this symposium is to further explore the relationship
between data science and the arts,” said Twomey. “We hope attendees will
walk away inspired to forge new partnerships and change the ways in which
these two disciplines work together.”

The Cultured Data Symposium is made possible by generous support from
the Halıcıoğlu
Data Science Institute <https://datascience.ucsd.edu/>, UC San Diego Library
<https://library.ucsd.edu/>, Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination
<http://imagination.ucsd.edu/>, Division of Arts and Humanities
<https://artsandhumanities.ucsd.edu/>, Institute of Arts and Humanities
<https://iah.ucsd.edu/>, and the Department of Visual Arts
<https://visarts.ucsd.edu/>.

All events are free and open to students, faculty, staff and the
public*—*registration
required <https://cultureddata.net/attend/>. Detailed schedule available
here <https://cultureddata.net/schedule/>. For more information, please
contact UCSDLibrary at ucsd.edu.


------------------------------
MEDIA CONTACT

*April Green*, 858-822-4803, atgreen at ucsd.edu

*Anthony King*, 858-822-7824, anthonypking at ucsd.edu

UC San Diego’s Studio Ten 300 <https://ucpa.ucsd.edu/services/studio/> offers
radio and television connections for media interviews with our faculty,
which can be coordinated via studio at ucsd.edu. To connect with a UC San
Diego faculty expert on relevant issues and trending news stories, visit
https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/media-resources/faculty-experts.


-- 
Erin Rose Glass, Ph.D.
Digital Scholarship Librarian
UC San Diego Library
www.erinroseglass.com | @erinroseglass
(858) 534-0827