Data + The Arts

6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | In Person in the Mathematics 3 Atrium and Online on YouTube Live

Check out this event hosted along with Alumni Black and Gold Day.

Discover how artists are using data to create innovative works that influence change. In this event, you'll meet three artists using data to express beauty.

Cost: Complimentary, pre-registration required

Meet the panellists

Jane Tingley

Jane Tingley is an artist, curator, and Associate Professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her studio work combines traditional studio practice with new media tools - and spans responsive/interactive installation, performative robotics, and telematically connected distributed sculptures/ installations. She has participated in exhibitions and festivals in the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe - including translife - International Triennial of Media Art at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, Gallerie Le Deco in Tokyo (JP), Elektra Festival in Montréal (CA) and the Künstlerhause in Vienna (AT). She received the Kenneth Finkelstein Prize in Sculpture in Manitoba, the first prize in the iNTERFACES – Interactive Art Competition in Porto, Portugal, and has received support from a number of funding agencies, the arts councils of Canada, Manitoba, Ontario, and Québec, the Canada Council for the arts, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Marcel O'Gorman

Marcel O’Gorman, Professor and University Research Chair Faculty of Art, Founding Director of the Critical Medial Lab (CML) where he teaches courses, leads collaborative projects and directs workshops in digital design and the philosophy of technology. The CML is located in side the Communitech Hub in Kitchener, where its role is to disseminate a philosophy of ‘tech for good.’ Besides publishing widely about the impact of technology on society, O’Gorman is also a digital artist with an international portfolio of exhibitions and performances. Marcel’s most recent research looks at “Digital Abstinence: the Art, Philosophy and Politics of Unplugging.”

Rob Gorbet

Rob Gorbet PhD ‘97 is an Associate Professor in the Department of Knowledge Integration at the University of Waterloo. He is passionate about making connections between people and ideas in ways that help others think differently about the world and their place within it. This extends throughout his award-winning teaching, his professional development workshops, his parenting, and his artistic practice. He both teaches and practices effective collaboration, and his award-winning collaborative technology-mediated artworks have been exhibited and commissioned around the globe.

Moderated by:

Craig Kaplan

Craig is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He research focuses on interactions between computer science, mathematics and art. Using ideas from computer graphics, classical and computational geometry, symmetry and tiling theory, and perceptual psychology, he develops tools and algorithms that generate ornamental patterns or that empower artists and designers. Craig is an associate editor and past editor-in-chief of Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, and helps organize the annual Bridges Conference on interdisciplinary math-art connections.