Sensory Overload Tech Conference

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Sensory Overload Tech Conference
Thursday, March 26 and Friday, March 27
UGA Special Collections Library

Free and open to the public
http://www.slingshotathens.com/line-up/tech

Technologists, designers, researchers, engineers, sonification experts, and visualization masters all convene at the Slingshot Festival to demonstrate the expressions and understanding of Big Data + Data Perceptualization.

THURSDAY, MARCH 26

8:30 AM
Welcome
Visualization Video Program

9 AM
Thomas E. Potok, Founder and Leader, Computational Data Analytics Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Swimming in Big Data

10 AM
Samantha Joye, Director, ECOGIG; Professor of Marine Sciences, UGA
Assessing the ecosystem impacts of a deepwater blowout: collecting, interpreting and evaluating ecosystem-scale datasets to assess large scale environmental perturbations

11 AM
Panel: Real Big Data Applications in IT, moderated by Nikhil Srinivasan, Department of Management Information Systems, UGA

Gunnar Berger, CTO Desktops & Apps, Citrix
Micah Freedman, Director of UX, Integral Ad Science
Advertising in the Age of Big Data
Jeff Small, Technology Director, Atlanta, HUGE, Inc.
The Internet of Things – The Data Ramifications Of Everything Talking To Everything

1:30 PM
Bruce Walker, Director, Sonification Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
Method and Meaning: Useful and Usable Sonification and Auditory Display

2:30 PM
Valery Vermeulen, Visiting Professor, Erasmushogschool Brussel
Interactive sound design and synthesis as an innovative tool for music composition and performance

2:40 PM
Live Data Sonification Performance
Mikromedas: Resynthesizing space and deep space in musical context

FRIDAY, MARCH 27

9 AM
Designer’s Forum: Data Visualization

Brad Tober, Assistant Professor, Graphic Design, University of Illinois
Algorithmic/Data Aesthetics
Annelie Berner, data artist and technologist, New Inc.(an art, tech & design incubator)
The New Museum
Looking at Data through One Lens
Zane Cochran, Interaction Designer, Founder, HackBerry Lab, Berry College;
PhD Candidate, Georgia Tech Interactive Media Technology Center
Pixi – Interactive Fashion & Interface
Kyle McDonald, Interactive Telecomunications Program (ITP),
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

10:30 AM
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director, AlloSphere Research Facility, University of California, Santa Barbara
Composing in N-Dimensions: Using the Creative Process as a Computational Framework for Unfolding Complex Systems

11:30 AM
Sensory Overload Data Perceptualization Competition
Presentation of Finalists and Awards