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National Digital Forum 2015

Talking About Visual Thinking

presented by Chris McDowall

Sometimes I think about these sorts of work­ing graph­ics as a sort of men­tal scaf­fold­ing. In the act of ren­der­ing data, or draw­ing our thoughts, we assem­ble a con­struct to hang oth­er con­cepts from. So it’s a con­struct that can be extend­ed or mod­i­fied or dis­as­sem­bled and turned into some­thing new.

The Perfect Face

presented by Tim Sherratt

With mea­sure­ment comes the pow­er to cat­e­go­rize and con­trol. These are tech­nolo­gies that enable us to be judged at a dis­tance, to be iden­ti­fied as a threat or a sales oppor­tu­ni­ty just by the way we look. Facial recog­ni­tion takes this fur­ther. Not only can we be reduced to a set of externally-verifiable mea­sure­ments, but these mea­sure­ments are assumed to some­how con­sti­tute our identity.

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