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Readings for Speakers & Events

Supporting readings for on-campus speakers and events.

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Data, Mine
January 16 – February 19, 2019
Hasan Elahi and Laurie Frick

Art Talk and Reception with the Artists
Thursday, January 24,  6 - 8 p.m.

Readings

An Artist Sees Data So Powerful It Can Help Us Pick Better Friends. NPR: All Things Considered. Feb 25, 2018.

Ascher, Marcia. Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Badger, Emily and Quoctrung Bui. "Detailed New National Maps Show How Neighborhoods Shape Children for Life." New York Times. Oct 1 2018.

Brin, David. The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose between Privacy and Freedom? Reading, Mass: Perseus Books, 2000

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, and Samuel Putnam. Don Quixote De La Mancha. 1998 Modern Library ed., Modern Library, 1998.
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Dutton, Denis. The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010.

Elahi, Hasan. What Would You Do If The Feds Were Watching You? NPR: TED Radio Hour. January 31, 2014.

Elahi, Hasan. "How to Invade Your Own Privacy So the Government Doesn’t Have To." Foreign Policy. May 2, 2016.

Hasan Elahi’s 24/7 self-tracking website Tracking Transience.

Hasan Elahi. The Colbert Report. 5/7/2008

Freed, Ian. "Using Machine Learning to Analyze Taylor Swift's Lyrics."  Codecademy. Sept. 19, 2018.

Frick, Laurie. Seeing the hidden language in art: Laurie Frick at TEDxAustin

Frick, Laurie. Laurie Frick ignite talk at Eyeo | nanobot murals + your data = immune boost. Sept.1 2016.

Gell, Alfred. The Anthropology of Time: Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images. Oxford: Berg, 2001

Harari, Yuval N. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. NY : Harper Perennial, 2018.

Lanier, Jaron. Who Owns the Future? London: Penguin, 2014.

Lupi, Giorgia, Stefanie Posavec, and Maria Popova. Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2016.

Mitgang, Herbert. Dangerous Dossiers. New York: Donald I. Fine Books/Dutton, 1996.

Onians, John. Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki. London : Yale University Press, 2017.

Saunders, Frances S. The Cultural Cold War: The Cia and the World of Arts and Letters. New York: New Press, 2013.

Stinson, Elizabeth. "Paula Scher's Insanely Detailed US Maps Elevate Data Viz to Fine Art." Wired. Feb 22, 2016.

Verdecchia, Guillermo. Citizen Suárez. Burnaby, B.C., Canada: Talonbooks, 1998.

Wilson, Timothy D. Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap, 2004.