The influence of visualization on the perception of space is one of the questions which Julien De Smedt focussed on. Born in Belgium, Julien De Smedt is currently one of Denmark’s most successful young architects. He worked for several years for OMA/ Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam before co-founding, together with Bjarke Ingels, the Copenhagen-based Architecture firm PLOT which quickly established itself as the star of the Danish architecture scene. De Smedt has won numerous renowned architecture awards such as, for example, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and the European Prize for Urban Public Space. He was also nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award and has won the ‘Young Architect of the Year Award’ twice. He has been director of the Copenhagen Office JDS Architects since 2006.
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JULIEN DE SMEDT
JULIEN DE SMEDT
The influence of visualization on the perception of space is one of the questions which Julien De Smedt focussed on. Born in Belgium, Julien De Smedt is currently one of Denmark’s most successful young architects. He worked for several years for OMA/ Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam before co-founding, together with Bjarke Ingels, the Copenhagen-based Architecture firm PLOT which quickly established itself as the star of the Danish architecture scene. De Smedt has won numerous renowned architecture awards such as, for example, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and the European Prize for Urban Public Space. He was also nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award and has won the ‘Young Architect of the Year Award’ twice. He has been director of the Copenhagen Office JDS Architects since 2006.
ZACHARY LIEBERMAN
If you could see the voice, what would it look like? The performances, installations and online works of Zachary Lieberman aim to make the invisible visible. His projects explore the nature of communication by visualizing sound, movement and human behaviour. Together with collaborator Golan Levin he created “Messa Di Voce”, a concert performance in which the speech, shouts and songs of two vocalists were radically augmented in real-time by interactive visualization software. One of his most recent installations is “Motionscapes”, which aims to give disabled children new ways of interacting with their environment and expressing themselves. Lieberman has held artist residencies at Ars Electronica Futurelab, Eyebeam, and most recently at the New York Dance Theatre Workshop. Together with Golan Levin he has been nominated for Wired magazine’s “Artist of the Year” award in 2005.
ZACHARY LIEBERMAN
If you could see the voice, what would it look like? The performances, installations and online works of Zachary Lieberman aim to make the invisible visible. His projects explore the nature of communication by visualizing sound, movement and human behaviour. Together with collaborator Golan Levin he created “Messa Di Voce”, a concert performance in which the speech, shouts and songs of two vocalists were radically augmented in real-time by interactive visualization software. One of his most recent installations is “Motionscapes”, which aims to give disabled children new ways of interacting with their environment and expressing themselves. Lieberman has held artist residencies at Ars Electronica Futurelab, Eyebeam, and most recently at the New York Dance Theatre Workshop. Together with Golan Levin he has been nominated for Wired magazine’s “Artist of the Year” award in 2005.
BEN FRY
Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the “Aesthetics and Computation Group” (ACG) of John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab. Together with Casey Reas, he developed the open source programming language “Processing” and was awarded with a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 2005. His personal work has been shown at the MoMA in New York, it has appeared in the films “Minority Report” and “The Hulk”and illustrated articles for magazines like Seed or the New York Magazine. Ben Fry’s background is a mixture of computer science, graphic design and data visualization. His fascinating work includes projects like “Anemone”, a tool for organic data visualization, and “Genome Valence”, a genomic cartography project to represent the data found in the human genome. In December 2007 he released his new book “Visualizing Data”.
BEN FRY
Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the “Aesthetics and Computation Group” (ACG) of John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab. Together with Casey Reas, he developed the open source programming language “Processing” and was awarded with a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 2005. His personal work has been shown at the MoMA in New York, it has appeared in the films “Minority Report” and “The Hulk”and illustrated articles for magazines like Seed or the New York Magazine. Ben Fry’s background is a mixture of computer science, graphic design and data visualization. His fascinating work includes projects like “Anemone”, a tool for organic data visualization, and “Genome Valence”, a genomic cartography project to represent the data found in the human genome. In December 2007 he released his new book “Visualizing Data”.
BRUCE STERLING
BRUCE STERLING
FRANK VAN HAM
Frank van Ham presented IBM’s viewpoint on visualization. Based on the hypothesis that visualizations become more powerful when multiple people can look at them they created the experimental “Many Eyes” public website. IBM’s Visual Communication Lab investigates how visualization can spur communication and social interaction, and how both of these two activities can yield new insight into data. Frank van Ham joined the VCL in February of 2006 as a post-doctoral researcher. He holds an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Information Visualization, both from the Eindhoven University of Technology.
FRANK VAN HAM
Frank van Ham presented IBM’s viewpoint on visualization. Based on the hypothesis that visualizations become more powerful when multiple people can look at them they created the experimental “Many Eyes” public website. IBM’s Visual Communication Lab investigates how visualization can spur communication and social interaction, and how both of these two activities can yield new insight into data. Frank van Ham joined the VCL in February of 2006 as a post-doctoral researcher. He holds an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Information Visualization, both from the Eindhoven University of Technology.