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The Line Between ThemOn the occasion of the U.S. Presidential election night, Amber Frid-Jimenez will give a talk on her latest book and series of artworks on the aesthetics of charisma and its persuasive technologies at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (CA). Feedback Series: Amber Frid-Jimenez - Tuesday 6 November at 19:00

The Line Between Them
On the occasion of the U.S. Presidential election night, Amber Frid-Jimenez will give a talk on her latest book and series of artworks on the aesthetics of charisma and its persuasive technologies at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (CA). Feedback Series: Amber Frid-Jimenez - Tuesday 6 November at 19:00

Data is PoliticalOn Saturday 1 September 2012, former Design researcher Amber Frid-Jimenez will give a presentation on Data is Political at Ars Electronica in Linz (AT). The presentation will use the narrative of Austrian film actress Hedy Lamarr and her invention of spread spectrum technology as a device to raise questions about the role uncertainty plays in how data related technologies shape contemporary society. Data is political is a research project at the intersection of contemporary art, design and the politics of information. The talk is part of a panel discussion on Sensing Place/Placing Sense II: Accountability Technologies, organised by Dietmar Offenhuber and Katja Schechtner held at the Architekturforum Oberösterreich on 1 September 2012, 10:00 — 20:00.

Data is Political
On Saturday 1 September 2012, former Design researcher Amber Frid-Jimenez will give a presentation on Data is Political at Ars Electronica in Linz (AT). The presentation will use the narrative of Austrian film actress Hedy Lamarr and her invention of spread spectrum technology as a device to raise questions about the role uncertainty plays in how data related technologies shape contemporary society.

Data is political is a research project at the intersection of contemporary art, design and the politics of information. The talk is part of a panel discussion on Sensing Place/Placing Sense II: Accountability Technologies, organised by Dietmar Offenhuber and Katja Schechtner held at the Architekturforum Oberösterreich on 1 September 2012, 10:00 — 20:00.

Pop RocksAn installation that transforms a city block of downtown Vancouver into a soft landscape using post-industrial waste on its way to be recycled. Open to the public until 3 September 2012, Pop Rock is a collaboration between AFJD Studio (former design researcher Amber Frid-Jimenez & Joe Dahmen) and Matthew Soules Architecture. 

Pop Rocks
An installation that transforms a city block of downtown Vancouver into a soft landscape using post-industrial waste on its way to be recycled. Open to the public until 3 September 2012, Pop Rock is a collaboration between AFJD Studio (former design researcher Amber Frid-Jimenez & Joe Dahmen) and Matthew Soules Architecture. 

*Latent Stare**Latent Stare* is an exhibition project that looks at the discipline of type-design through a particular critical lens. The project has been assembled by David Bennewith, who has been working on the subject as an advising researcher of Jan van Eyck Academie’s Design department since 2010 and who is Casco’s new visual identity designer.  With contributions by Hinrich Sachs, Paul Elliman, Runa Islam, Peter Verheul, Luke Wood, Herman Damen, Karl Nawrot, Jo De Baerdemaeker, Paul Chan, Vasilis Marmatakis, Ji Lee, Christoph Knoth, Frank Adebiaye, Joseph Churchward, Amber Frid-Jimenez, Felix Weigand.  The exhibition opens on Sunday 8 July, 15:00 at Casco in Utrecht (NL) and will be on show until 30 September 2012.

*Latent Stare*
*Latent Stare* is an exhibition project that looks at the discipline of type-design through a particular critical lens. The project has been assembled by David Bennewith, who has been working on the subject as an advising researcher of Jan van Eyck Academie’s Design department since 2010 and who is Casco’s new visual identity designer. 

With contributions by Hinrich Sachs, Paul Elliman, Runa Islam, Peter Verheul, Luke Wood, Herman Damen, Karl Nawrot, Jo De Baerdemaeker, Paul Chan, Vasilis Marmatakis, Ji Lee, Christoph Knoth, Frank Adebiaye, Joseph Churchward, Amber Frid-Jimenez, Felix Weigand. 

The exhibition opens on Sunday 8 July, 15:00 at Casco in Utrecht (NL) and will be on show until 30 September 2012.

Data Is Political: een symposium over de politiek van kunst, ontwerp en informatieOp 15 maart organiseert onderzoekster Ontwerpen Amber Frid-Jimenez het symposium Data is Political aan de Bergen National Academy of Art & Design in Noorwegen. Het symposium is een interdisciplinair evenement ontwikkeld in samenwerking met de Jan van Eyck Academie en de Universiteit van Bergen (NO). De affiche voor het symposium werd ontworpen door onderzoekster Ina Kwon. Meer info en het volledige programma vindt u via http://dataispolitical.net.  Data Is Political: A Symposium on Art, Design and Information PoliticsOn March 15 researcher Design Amber Frid-Jimenez is organising the symposium Data Is Political at the Bergen National Academy of Art & Design in Norway.  Data Is Political is a symposium examining the relationship between art, design and the politics of information. The event brings together artists, designers and scientists to discuss such questions as: What are the aesthetic, ethical and spatial dimensions of information and its relation to power, the production of knowledge, and the construction of urban spaces? Speakers include Philippe Rekacewicz, Peter Sunde, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Max Van Kleek and Daniel van der Velden, with contributions from Steve Dixon, Michelle Teran and Jill Walker Rettberg. The event is organised by Amber Frid-Jimenez and Ben Dalton. Data Is Political is developed as an interdisciplinary event at the Bergen National Academy of Art & Design in collaboration with the Jan van Eyck Academie, and the University of Bergen. The symposium has received generous support from the Verdikt programme of the Norges Forskningsråd, the KHIB Research Council, and the KHIB departments of Design and Fine Art.  Data Is Political will be held from 10am to 6pm on March 15, 2012 at the Bergen Public Library and will be followed by a reception at rom8 Gallery in conjunction with On Balance, an exhibition by Ellen Røed and Christian Blom. Please visit http://dataispolitical.net for a full program and a link to a live video stream of the event. The poster for this conference was designed by researcher Design Ina Kwon. http://dataispolitical.net

Data Is Political: een symposium over de politiek van kunst, ontwerp en informatie
Op 15 maart organiseert onderzoekster Ontwerpen Amber Frid-Jimenez het symposium Data is Political aan de Bergen National Academy of Art & Design in Noorwegen. Het symposium is een interdisciplinair evenement ontwikkeld in samenwerking met de Jan van Eyck Academie en de Universiteit van Bergen (NO). De affiche voor het symposium werd ontworpen door onderzoekster Ina Kwon. Meer info en het volledige programma vindt u via http://dataispolitical.net. 

Data Is Political: A Symposium on Art, Design and Information Politics
On March 15 researcher Design Amber Frid-Jimenez is organising the symposium Data Is Political at the Bergen National Academy of Art & Design in Norway. 

Data Is Political is a symposium examining the relationship between art, design and the politics of information. The event brings together artists, designers and scientists to discuss such questions as: What are the aesthetic, ethical and spatial dimensions of information and its relation to power, the production of knowledge, and the construction of urban spaces? Speakers include Philippe Rekacewicz, Peter Sunde, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Max Van Kleek and Daniel van der Velden, with contributions from Steve Dixon, Michelle Teran and Jill Walker Rettberg. The event is organised by Amber Frid-Jimenez and Ben Dalton.

Data Is Political is developed as an interdisciplinary event at the Bergen National Academy of Art & Design in collaboration with the Jan van Eyck Academie, and the University of Bergen. The symposium has received generous support from the Verdikt programme of the Norges Forskningsråd, the KHIB Research Council, and the KHIB departments of Design and Fine Art. 

Data Is Political will be held from 10am to 6pm on March 15, 2012 at the Bergen Public Library and will be followed by a reception at rom8 Gallery in conjunction with On Balance, an exhibition by Ellen Røed and Christian Blom. Please visit http://dataispolitical.net for a full program and a link to a live video stream of the event.

The poster for this conference was designed by researcher Design Ina Kwon.

http://dataispolitical.net

Amber Frid-Jimenez

Onderzoeker ontwerpen / Researcher Design
01.08.10 – 30.06.12
amberfj [at] gmail [dot] com
www.amberfj.com

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