CANCELLED: RITMO Seminar Series: Network Alchemy (Greg Niemeyer and Roger Antonsen)

The talk has been cancelled because of the increasing health safety concerns about COVID 19 and related travel restrictions.

In this talk, Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley) and Roger Antonsen (UiO) discuss their interdisciplinary collaboration and their explorations of networks, specifically network transformations.

Time and place: – , NB: seminar room 3, Harald Schjelderups hus

Tree in black and white. Drawing.Abstract

In search of both computational and intuitive understandings of the nature of networks, Antonsen and Niemeyer push the boundaries of network visualization and sonification.

At high levels of abstraction, they show how transformations are frictionless and enchanting. Boundaries seem fluid. When networks are more concrete, transformations are also more challenging. How can the fluidity of abstraction help inspire and support new kinds of solutions in concrete situations?

Niemeyer and Antonsen present excerpts of their audiovisual and interactive work, and discuss what creative research can add to cold, hard structures of information technology. Antonsen and Niemeyer worked together on major projects including Network Paradox (Catharine Clark Gallery. 2018) and Quantopia (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2019) with DJ Spooky.

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Mann med skjegg ved strandkanten. Portrett. Foto.
Greg Niemeyer

Greg Niemeyer is Chair and Full Professor of New Media at