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Visualisation: programme 


Friday, 25 march 2011

9:00-09:30

Registration
and coffee

Location: Entrance Hall, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford


09:30-10:00


Welcome and opening remarks

LT4


Annamaria Carusi (University of Oxford), Aud Sissel Hoel (NTNU) and Tim Webmoor (University of Oxford)


10:00-11:00


Keynote 1

LT4

 

Steve Woolgar (University of Oxford): 'Visualisation in the age of computerisation'

 
11:00-11:30

Break and refreshments


Location: Entrance Hall


11:30-13:00


Paper session: Visions of evidence

LT4


Catelijne Coopmans (National University of Singapore): 'Visual analytics: witnessing artful revelation in business intelligence'

Emma Frow (University of Edinburgh): 'In images we trust? Setting guidelines for digital image processing in scientific journals'

Erin Kruger (University of Western Sydney): 'Visualising uncertainty: law, DNA, and the quantification of "reasonable doubt'"

Chair: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (Microsoft Research Cambridge)


11:30-13:00


Paper session: Philosophy of visualisation

SRA


Annamaria Carusi (University of Oxford) and Aud Sissel Hoel (NTNU): 'The measuring body: beyond quantitative/qualitative boundaries’

Victoria Höög (Lund University): 'The epistemic perspective revisited: Quine's thesis of holism and underdetermination applied to visuality in the sciences'

Nicola Mößner (RWTH Aachen University): 'Are visualisations a link to nature?'

Chair: Willard McCarty (King's College London)


11:30-13:00


Paper session:
From vision to interpretation

ACSR


Richard Arias-Hernandez, Tera Marie Green and Brian Fisher (Simon Fraser University): 'From cognitive prostheses to cognitive amplifiers: understandings of the material basis of cognition in visual analytics'

Min Chen (Swansea University) and Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford and University of Hertfordshire): 'An information map for visualisation'

Ségolène Tarte (University of Oxford): 'The interplay of visual perception and cognition in digital papyrology: visualisation for interpretation, visualisation as interpretation'

Chair: Michael Batty (University College London)


13:00-14:00 

Lunch

Location: Entrance Hall

14:00-15:30


Paper session: Visualising networks

LT4


Sarah de Rijcke and Anne Beaulieu (Virtual Knowledge Studio): 'Network realism: making knowledge from images in digital infrastructure'

Anders Koed Madsen (Copenhagen Business School): 'Delineation devices at the root of social representation - a comparison of online entry-points for mapping the controversy about synthetic biology'

Albena Yaneva (University of Manchester): 'Moving networks: architectural tools for tracing the social'

Chair: Felix Reed-Tsochas (University of Oxford)


14:00-15:30


Paper session: Filmic realities

SRA


Pål Aarsand (Uppsala University) and Anna Sparrman (Linköping University): 'Visual transcriptions as theory (and methodology)'

Phillip Brooker (University of Manchester): 'Videoing ‘seeing’ in the work of Astrophysics programming'

Alma Steingart (MIT): 'Unspooling the topologist’s videotape: from chicken-wires to film festivals'

Chair: Javier Lezaun (University of Oxford)


15:30-16:00

Break and refreshments
  

Location: Entrance Hall


16:00-17:00


Paper session:
Data intensity and visual knowing

LT4


Ruth McNally and Adrian McKenzie (Lancaster University): 'Latent semantic indexing of experiments as text: the making of a literary technology for the virtual witnessing of data production'

Fabian Neuhaus (University College London) and Tim Webmoor (University of Oxford):  'Massified research and visualisation. Network effects of data harvesting from Twitter, public API feeds and other social media'

Andrew Hudson-Smith, Steven Gray, Oliver O`Brien and Richard Milton (University College London): 'Harvesting and visualising the crowd: Twitter space, bikes, surveys and data stores'

Chair: Ralph Schroeder (University of Oxford)


16:00-17:00


Paper session:
Identities of visualisation

ACSR


Robert Bhatt (University of Umea): 'Moving beyond beauty in medical imaging: an ethnographic study of the role of three-dimensional visualisations as boundary objects in medical science'

Luis Felipe R. Murillo (UCLA): 'Partial perspectives in Astronomy: gender, ethnicity, nationality and meshworks in building digital images of the universe'

Chair: Marina Jirotka (University of Oxford)


16:00-17:00


Hands on visualising: Installations and demo presentations

SRA


Luke Church and Alan Blackwell (Crucible Network for Research in Interdisciplinary Design and University of Cambridge): 'Computation, visualisation and critical reflection'

Gordana Novakovic and the Fugue team (University College London): 'Fugue'

Alison Munro (Australian National University): ‘Thinking about science and
drawing’

Chair: Federica Frabetti (Oxford Brookes University)


17:00-17:30

Break and refreshments
 

Location: Entrance Hall


17:30-18:30


Keynote 2

LT4

 
Peter Galison (Harvard University): Title TBC

19:30

Conference dinner (pre-registration required)


Green-Templeton College, University of Oxford

 

 


Saturday, 26 March 2011

10:00-11:00


Keynote 3

LT4


Michael Lynch (Cornell University): 'Image and imagination: an exploration of online nano-image galleries'


11:00-11:30

Break and refreshments


Location: Founders' Room

11:30:13:00

Paper session: Envisioning biology

LT4


Johannes Bruder (University of Basel): 'The poetry of information: images, models and visualisations in neuroscience'

Merete Lie (NTNU): 'Displaying human cells: scale and autonomisation'

Janina Wellmann (Tel Aviv University): 'From ‘seeing in-between’ to the ‘in toto’ representation of the embryo. Representations of biological development ca. 1810 and ca. 2010'

Chair: Tanja Schneider (University of Oxford)


11:30:13:00


Paper session:
Embodiment and visualisation

LT5

 
Matt Edgeworth (Leicester University): 'Computer applications and their influence on perceptual encounters with material evidence during archeological excavation'

Trine Haagensen (University of Oslo): 'Has the human left the building yet? Questioning the transcripted truths of prosthetic visualisation technology'

Adam Rosenfeld (SUNY): ‘From representation
to performance: convergence of the dry-lab and wet-lab and manipulation of fictional models’

Chair: Liv Hausken (University of Oslo)


11:30:13:00

Poster session and demo

SRA


Amanda Windle (London College of Communication, University of the Arts): 'Inscribing complexity: diagrammatic interventions'

Dolores Steinman and David Steinman (University of Toronto): 'Biomedical simulations and their challenges to the medical visual culture' 

Jennifer Tomomitsu (Lancaster University): '‘Seeing’ as feeling: embodied material practices of 3D image reconstruction'

Julie Palmer and Frances Griffiths (University of Warwick): 'Digital radiography in the post-photographic era'

Luke Church and Alan Blackwell (University of Cambridge): 'Computation, visualisation and critical reflection' - DEMO


13:00-14:00

Lunch
  
Location: Founders' Room

14:00-15:30


Paper session:
Professionalised vision

LT4


Phaedra Daipha (Rutgers University): 'Screenwork as the social organisation of expertise' 

Grace de la Flor, Marina Jirotka and Eric Meyer (University of Oxford): 'Accessing medieval music: from material codex to digital specimen'

David Ribes (Georgetown University): 'Redistributing expert vision: crowdsourcing, agency and interface'

Chair: Paul Jepson (University of Oxford)


14:00-15:30


Paper session:
Visual practices of objectivity

LT5

 


Chiara Ambrosio (University College London): 'Objectivity and representative practices across artistic and scientific visualisation'

Bill Leeming (OCAD University): ''Computationally seeing’ an epistemic space for genomic medicine'

Matt Spencer (Goldsmiths): 'Image and imagination in computational modelling of fluid dynamics"

Chair: Torben Elgaard Jensen (DTU Management
Technical University of Denmark)


14:00-15:30


Paper session:
Science and aesthetics

SRA


Roberta Buiani (University of Toronto): 'Of viruses, microscopes and computing: visualisation and the question of biopower'

Sara Diamond (OCAD University): 'Aesthetic histories and material practices – the limits of visualisation and the limits of the real"

Anja Johansen (NTNU): 'The sublime aesthetics of the cell'

Chair: Martin Kemp (University of Oxford)


15:30-16:00

Break and refreshments

Location: Founders' Room

16:00-17:00


Paper session:
Ethnographies of the visual

LT4


Marko Monteiro (University of Campinas): 'Are scientific images good ethnographic sites? Interpreting remote sensing practices in Brazil'

Daniel Neyland (Lancaster University): 'Notes from an ethnography of deleting'

Chair: Udi Butler (University of Oxford)


16:00-17:00


Paper session: Visualising controversies

LT5

 


Brigitte Nerlich and Kate Roach (University of Nottingham): 'Pictures, politics and persuasion – the case of Greenpeace’s Sinar Mas campaign'

Tom Schilling (MIT): 'Kriging and traditional ecological knowledge: the visual politics of uranium exploration in Arctic Canada'

Chair: Noortje Marres (Goldsmiths)


17:00-17:30

Break and refreshments

Location: Founders' Room

17:30-18:30


Closing discussion

LT4


Anne Beaulieu (Virtual Knowledge Studio) and Paolo Quattrone (IE Business School)

18:30-19:30

Drinks reception

Location: Founders' Room