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The Data Sensorium: Multimodal Exploration of Scientific Data Sets

Big data is one of the defining problems of our time: we are immersed in a torrent of information from scientific discovers, news, social circles, and the devices we carry.  The challenge is to distill all this abstract data into userful conclusions.  The Data Sensorium was launched in 2011 to foster novel kinds of collaborations to yield new insights.  Collaborations are not merely fashionable: they are critical to tackling modern scientific and engineering challenges.  However collaborations are typically thought of in terms of bleeding across conventional discipline boundaries.  While these 'nearby' interactions (e.g. between physicists and chemists) are undoubtedly valuable, the Data Sensorium instead explores how seemingly disparate disciplines such as the arts and the sciences can interact to mutual benefit. 

Bio

Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media whose works have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. While working towards a DMA in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, her interactive multimedia opera, A King Listens, premiered at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was profiled by apple.com. Her research focuses on gesture in music, the sustainability of technology in art, and sonification of data.In 2010 she co-chaired the International Computer Music Conference, and in 2011 she co-chaired the Electro-Acoustic Music Studies Network Conference. She ran SUNY’s first Coursera Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), an introduction to computational arts. As an Associate Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, she serves as Co-Director of Computer Music and is the Director of cDACT, the consortium for digital art, culture and technology.

Speaker

Margaret Schedel

Date

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Time

1 pm - 2 pm

Location

Laufer Center, Room 101

Media

Recording