International Seminar Visualizar'11: Understanding Infrastructures

*06.14.2011, 06.15.2011 and 06.27.2011*

@ Medialab Prado · Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 Madrid**(Spain)*http://medialab-prado.es*

Presentations and seminar program on June 14 and 15, 2011 during the workshop-seminar Visualizar'11: Understanding infraestructures, an event on the production of projects that will investigate, analyze and represent through data the running of infrastructures and global systems. The seminar will take place on June 13 and 14.

Free admission. Limited seating. [live streaming]

Simultaneous translation English/Spanish

_*Tuesday**, June 14*_

10 am: Opening and presentation of the event 10:30 am: Presentation of the workshop and the 10 projects selected through an international open call that will be collaboratively developed during the workshop 2 pm – 2:30 pm: Collaborators' presentation 5 pm: Lecture by Amber Frid-Jimenez: /Data Is Political/ 6 pm: Lecture by Rob Holmes: /An Atlas of iPhone Landscapes/ 7 pm: Break 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Lecture by Dietmar Offenhuber (SENSEable City Lab/ MIT):/The Internet of Obsolete Objects/

_*Wednesday**, June 15*_

10 am-10:30 am: Paper presentation by Daniel Rojas: /Cartografía, descubrimiento, uso y representación / 10:30 am: Paper presentation byJosé Luis Muñoz Muñoz: /Some Looks of the Art Over the Space of the Urban Infraestructures of the Contemporary City/ 11 am: Paper presentation bye Anil Bawa-Cavia: /Flowprints: Visualising Urban Network Dynamics / 11:30 am: Break 12 am: Paper presentation byInês Salpico:/Visualizing Financial Networks: New Understanding of the Financial System and Implications for Policy Makers / 12:30 am -1 pm: Paper presentation by Evangelos Kapros: /Poverty & Immigration: Visualising Simulations / 5pm: Lecture by Tom Raftery: /The Terms Smart Grid Has Recently Started to Enter the Everyday Lexicon, But What Is It, And Why Do We Need It?/ 6pm: Lecture by Drew Hemment: /Innovation in Infrastructure: DataGM/ 7pm: Break 7:30 pm- 8:30pm: Lecture by Usman Haque (Pachube):/The Craft of Data/ _*

Monday, June 27

*_6 pm: Lecture by Andrew Vande Moere (Information Aesthetics). At EOI School of Business

_*Other Activities:*_

_*Monday*_*_, June 20 _*5 pm - 8 pm: Impure workshop, an innovative tool for data visualization. Held by Bestiario. Limited seating. *_ Tuesday, June 21_* 7 pm - 9 pm: #Redada 8: Transparency and Access to Information. With Ignacio Escolar, David Cabo, Juan Freire, Eva Moraga, Daniel Montero, and Victoria Anderica.

_*Wednesday*_*_, June 22_* 6:30 pm - 8 pm: Workshop: Introduction to Data Visualization and Analysis with R. Held byFelipe Ortega. Limited seating.

In collaboration with EOI School of Business (http://www.eoi.es)