CONFERENCE
De Balie, Amsterdam
14 januari / 14 January 2010
9.30 – 17.00 hrs
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, our lives play out in a succession of databases and spreadsheets. Not only do we spend all day rummaging through countless data streams like Google and Facebook; everything we do leaves traces behind in other databases, through public transport chip cards, supermarket club cards and electronic medical files. The influence of databases, Excel sheets and algorithms has never been as clearly visible as it became during the credit crisis. The crisis cast a cold light on the fact that the global financial system had been built on the basis of mathematical models that attempted to quantify human behaviour. Blinded by the beauty of impressive mathematical systems, people thought they could precisely understand the risks of investments. Meanwhile it has become clear how risky it is to be dependent on these.
The media world, too, is paying more attention to the ever-increasing data streams. Data visualisation – a genre within visual culture that depicts data streams in provocative, poetic or insightful ways – has been booming, thanks to the growing availability of large amounts of data and the desire to grasp ever more complex realities by visual means. But is it always a good idea to assign such an important role to numerical information? How can we best interpret various data in relation to the values we consider important? And which new forms of storytelling does data visualisation have to offer us? Will the data film be the new documentary form?
The Mediafonds@Sandberg conference will consider the possibilities and consequences of these developments for media producers.
PROGRAM
9.30
Registration
10.00
Hans Maarten van den Brink
Welcome
10.05
Annelys de Vet
Introductie
10.10
Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens
De macht en afhankelijkheid van het modelleren / The Power and Dependency of Modelling
10.50
Koert van Mensvoort
Het medium geld / The Medium of Money
11.20
Christian Nold
Bijlmer Euro
12.50
Floris Douma
Crisis Telex
12.55
Henrik van Leeuwen
Where Is the True Value?
12.00 Lunch
13.o0
Richard Rogers
Mapping for People
13.40
Staffan Landin
Gapminder
14.20
Yuri Engelhardt, Martijn de Waal, Raul Niño Zambrano
Datafilm Snapshots
15.00 Pauze / Pause
15.15
Judith de Leeuw
A Journey through Fluctuating Currency
15.20
Ian Forrester
BBC Backstage
16.00
Catalogtree (Joris Maltha)
Form = Behaviour
16.30
Mieke Gerritzen
Infodecodata
17.00 Drinks
Moderator: Annelys de Vet (Sandberg Instituut)
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LOCATIE / LOCATION
De Balie
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam
www.debalie.nl
Tijd / Time: 9.30 – 17.00 hrs
Toegang gratis / Free entry
Nederlands en Engels gesproken / Dutch and English spoken
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De conferentie wordt georganiseerd door het Mediafonds in samenwerking met de afdeling Ontwerpen van het Sandberg Instituut en vormt de aftrap van de masterclass Mediafonds@Sandberg. Hierin werken documentairemakers samen met ontwerpers aan nieuwe culturele mediaproducties die de digitale grenzen verkennen. De eindresultaten worden gepresenteerd op 12 mei 2010 (o.v.).
The conference is organised by the Mediafonds in collaboration with the design department of the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam and is the opening event of the Mediafonds@Sandberg masterclass, in which documentary makers and designers will work together on new cultural media productions that explore digital boundaries. The final results will be presented on 12 May 2010 (TBC).