Visualizar'17, international data event

Ponentes Visualizar'17
September 15 2017

The international data visualisation programme Visualizar (Visualise), organised by MediaLab Prado, this year celebrates its tenth anniversary with a symposium open to the public on September 15 and 16 and a practical workshop dedicated to Migrations that will be developed over the second half of the month.

On Friday September 15 the public symposium starts, which will last until Saturday 16, and includes project presentations, presentation of collaborators and team training. The symposium will have a talk on Visualizar: 10 years, by José Luis de Vicente, founder of Visualizar. The presentation from Festival Transeuropa, talks on “Artistic Data Visualisation: new narrative forms” and “Code for South Africa”, from Lucila Rodríguez Alarcón and Hannah Williams, respectively, as well as participation from Julie Freeman, member of the Open Data Institute.

On Saturday September 16 the presentation of projects and collaborators will take place, as well as the methodology of projects: text editor, Markdown and Github. During the second day of the symposium Visulaizar’17 different national and international specialists in data visualisation will attend including Pau García and Polo Trías Coica (Domestic Data Streamers), José Luis Esteban Aparicio (Grupo Haskell Madrid), Álvaro Anguix and Javier Rodrigo (gvSIG), Gonzalo Fanjul (PorCausa), Samuel Granados (graphic editor at The Washington Post) and Alison Killing (architect and visual artist).

The following workshop, dedicated to the migration of people and the migration of data, made in partnership with PorCausa, aims to develop the eight selected projects between September 17 and 29, whose results will be presented publicly on September 30. To develop the projects there is a team of international and national mentors: graphic editors, data scientist, visualizers, cartographers and interaction designers, among others. This workshop focuses on the features, processes and behaviours of migration understood as a movement across the world territory -local, global or glocal- by species (flora and fauna), people, data or substances, with the aim of giving greater visibility to migrations, to decipher stories that hide numbers and connect data to creativity and technology

Visualizar is an international workshop for prototyping data visualisation projects from Medialab-Prado who advocates for developing the field of data visualisation. Since 2007, the programme Visualizar has researched social, cultural and artistic implications of data culture, and proposes methodologies to make them more understandable and to open up ways to participate and critique.

More information: Visualizar´17