Talk: Data art, creating artworks from scientific data?
© 2017 Kirell Benzi
The Digital Humanities Institute is happy to host a talk from Dr. Kirell Benzi on 13 November at 3:15 pm in room BC410.
Even if it may seem unnatural at first, the combination of art and science is gaining momentum in the research community. In this talk, I will explain why data art is a formidable support for scientific communication by showing how I went from raw data mining to the final creative representation. Throughout various examples, we will see that this approach can be used regardless of one's field of research as long as there is data to support it.
Dr. Kirell Benzi got his Ph.D from EPFL in 2016. He is now the founder and CEO of Kirelion, a creative data science startup based in Paris. Passionate about both computer science and art, he began his interest in digital creation by making abstract art from pictures at a young age. Combining both data analysis and network visualization, he tries to captivate the audience by showing that algorithms, apart from their scientific necessity, also generate emotions.