Tagungsprogramm / Conference Program

Friday, July 3rd

13.00: Claudia Mareis (Basel), Sabine Himmelsbach (Basel): Welcome & Introduction

Session 1 / Moderation: Johannes Bruder (Basel)

13.30: Ramón Reichert (Wien): Big Data. Der digitale Wandel von Gesellschaft, Kultur und Ökonomie

14.30: Sabine Niederer (Amsterdam): Digital Methods and the Technicity of Web Content

15.30: Coffee Break

Session 2 / Moderation: Christiane Heibach (Basel/Konstanz)

16.00: Jutta Weber (Paderborn): 'a certain anticipatory readiness about the world'. Big Data als (Selbst-)Überwachung

17:00: Jamie Allen (Basel/Kopenhagen) with Moritz Greiner-Petter (Basel): Bread and Roses and Data

18.00: Apéro / Drinks

Keynote / Moderation: Claudia Mareis (Basel)

19.00: Lev Manovich (New York): Using big data as an artistic tool

Saturday, July 4th

Session 3 / Moderation Leonie Häsler (Basel)

09.00: Felix Stalder (Zürich): Politik der Daten: Zwischen Post-Demokratie und Commons

10.00: Roberto Simanowski (Hong Kong): Von den technologischen und gesellschaftlichen Gründen und Konsequenzen des Big Data Paradigmas

11:00: Coffee Break

11.15: Ellie Harrison (Glasgow): Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector

12.15: Lunch Break

Session 4 / Moderation Felix Gerloff (Basel/Berlin)

13.00: Orit Halpern (New York): Beautiful Data: Clouds, Crowds, and Cybernetics

14.00: Nicolas Nova (Genf): Adventures in Algorithmic Cultures

15:00: Coffee Break

15.15: Shintaro Miyazaki (Basel): Ping Echo Request: Some Historical Remarks on Data Analysis

16.15: Claudia Mareis (Basel) & Sabine Himmelsbach (Basel): Wrap-Up

16.30: End of the Conference

Für die Teilnahme an der Tagung wird ein Unkostenbeitrag von 25 CHF erhoben (die Teilnahme für Studierende ist kostenfrei). Darin beinhaltet sind freier Eintritt in die Ausstellung 'Poetics and Politics of Data’ im HeK sowie Pausenverpflegung.

The conference fee of 25 CHF includes free admission to the exhibition, coffee & snacks. Attendance is free for students. Please register until June 30, 2015: felix.gerloff@fhnw.ch

Exhibition program: http://www.hek.ch/en/program/events-en/event/poetics-and-politics-of-data-1.html

'Poetics and Politics of Data' is an interdisciplinary project between HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel), the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (ixdm) of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, the Centre for Technology Assessment TA-SWISS and Opendata.ch, the Swiss chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation.