Eyeo festival explained

Eyeo Festival
Dates:June (dates vary, but typically the first weekend of the month)
Frequency:Annual
Location:Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Years Active:10
Founders:Dave Schroeder, Jer Thorp, Caitlin Rae Hargarten, Wes Grubbs
Website:http://eyeofestival.com

The Eyeo Festival is a yearly conference for artists who work with data and code. It takes place in Minneapolis. The conference began in 2011,[1] and has taken place yearly since then, typically at the Walker Art Center.[2] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was put on pause for 2020 and 2021.[3] Eyeo returned to Minneapolis in 2022, but was later put back on hiatus for 2023. There have been no updates on if/when Eyeo will be return.

Organizers and speakers

The event is organized by Dave Schroeder, Jer Thorp, Caitlin Rae Hargarten, and Wes Grubs.[4]

The conference features speakers who work in data visualization, creative coders and hackers. Past speakers include Amanda Cox,[5] Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi (who met at eyeo in 2013),[6] Mike Bostock,[7] Nicholas Felton,[8] Adam Harvey, Paola Antonelli,[9] Roman Verostko, Frieder Nake, Lillian Schwartz, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, Ben Fry,[10] Rachel Binx,[11] Moritz Stefaner,[12] Jenny Odell,[13] Lauren McCarthy,[14] Kyle McDonald, Samuel Sinyangwe,[15] Zachary Lieberman,[16] Golan Levin, Everest Pipkin,[17] Meredith Whittaker,[18] Catherine D'Ignazio,[19] Nadieh Bremer.

References

  1. Web site: EyeO Festival 2011 (NOTCOT). 2021-05-18. www.notcot.com.
  2. Web site: Minnesota's Roman Verostko, the grandfather of computer art. 2021-05-18. Star Tribune.
  3. Web site: Kaiser. Jonathan. Staying Inspired When We Can't Converge: Revisiting Eyeo 2019. 2021-05-18. Foundry. en.
  4. Web site: 5 Takeaways from Eyeo 2013. 2021-05-18. walkerart.org. en-US.
  5. Web site: 2011-06-30. Third day of interviews, last day in Eyeo festival. 2021-05-18. Hello_world!. en.
  6. These Hand-Drawn Postcards Are a Data-Viz Dream. en-US. Wired. 2021-05-18. 1059-1028.
  7. Web site: Mike Bostock wants us to visualize algorithms, not just the data that feeds into them. 2021-05-18. Nieman Lab.
  8. Web site: Nicholas Felton Quantified Literally Every Conversation He Had in 2013. 2021-05-18. www.vice.com. 19 August 2014 . en.
  9. Web site: 2014-07-11. Artiholics Exclusive Interview: The Teenage Programmer Behind Björk's Biophilia App... The One MoMA Recently Acquired. 2021-05-18. Artiholics. en-US. 2021-05-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20210518165458/https://artiholics.com/2014/07/11/artiholics-exclusive-interview-teenage-programmer-behind-bjorks-biophilia-app-first-app-ever-momas-collection/. dead.
  10. Web site: Design Science Attends Eyeo Festival 2016 – Design Science. 2021-05-18. en-US. 2021-05-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20210518170958/https://dscience.com/design-science-attends-eyeo-festival-2016/. dead.
  11. Web site: CARTO. Mapping Magic at the Eyeo Festival 2015. 2021-05-18. carto.com.
  12. Web site: 2018-05-18. Data food : oui, des poivrons farcis peuvent nous rencarder sur le taux de chômage du Kosovo !. 2021-05-18. L'ADN. fr-FR.
  13. Web site: Tiffany. Kaitlyn. 2019-03-25. How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook. 2021-05-18. Vox. en.
  14. Web site: Gonzalez. Desi. 2016-06-23. Fit for the Future: The 2016 Eyeo Festival. 2021-05-18. ARTnews.com. en-US.
  15. Web site: Interview with 2015 Digital Arts Writing Awards Recipient, Joanne McNeil. 2021-05-18. Thoma Foundation. en-US.
  16. Web site: Apologue's Tali Krakowsky To Speak On Experience Design At Eyeo Festival & PromaxBDA. 2021-05-18. Archinect. en.
  17. Web site: 2020-10-16. 2020-21 Galveston Artist Residency Artists to Arrive November 1. 2021-05-18. Glasstire. en-US.
  18. Web site: 2018-06-08. Eyeo 2018: Conferencing in the age of the Internet. 2021-05-18. Voilà. en-CA.
  19. Web site: The Realities of Data Bias in Design & Technology Adobe XD Ideas. 2021-05-18. Ideas. en-US.