Jer Thorp Explained

Jer Thorp
Birth Place:Vancouver, British Columbia
Citizenship:Canada
Nationality:Canadian

Jer Thorp (born 1974/5)[1] is a Canadian data artist from Vancouver, British Columbia.[2] Before becoming a data artist, he was originally trained as a geneticist. He holds an adjunct faculty position at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Interactive Telecommunications Program.[3] He was the Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times in 2012, where he created Cascade, a tool for visualizing how stories were shared across social media.[4] [5] and the Innovator-In-Residence at the Library of Congress in 2017.[6] [7] [8]

Work

He and Jake Barton created an algorithm that arranged the names of those killed in the 9/11 attacks, respecting their familial, personal and business relationships with each other; his visualization of their relatedness is exhibited at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.[9] [10] Thorp collaborated with Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, and Local Projects to create an interactive timeline of the attacks.[11] Thorp's visualization of the influence of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity on contemporary scientific research appeared in Scientific American's September 2015 commemorative issue on Einstein and was featured in The Best American Infographics 2016.[12]

Thorp is the co-creator of a data-based public artwork called Herald / Harbinger in downtown Calgary.[13] He co-founded The Office for Creative Research, which was a Brooklyn data management and visualization consultancy.[14] He is one of the founders of the Eyeo festival.

In 2021, Thorp released his first book, Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future.[15] [16]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: The Don of Data. Laure. Nouraout. Narratively. April 3, 2013.
  2. News: Redrawing boundaries — real and imagined — with digital artist Jer Thorp at the St. Louis Map Room. Moffitt. Kelly. 2018-03-15. en. Noted digital artist and designer Jer Thorp is the lead designer of the project..
  3. Web site: Jer Thorp . NYU . 2018-02-01.
  4. News: LaBarre. Suzanna. Infographic Of The Day: Cascade, The New York Times's Tool For Tracking How News Spreads [Video]]. Fast Company. 25 April 2011.
  5. Book: Richardson. Andrew. Data-driven Graphic Design: Creative Coding for Visual Communication. 2017. Bloomsbury Publishing. 9781474259774. en.
  6. News: This Man Makes Data Look Beautiful. Lauren Drell . Mashable . 2018-02-01.
  7. Web site: Welcoming Jer Thorp as the Innovator-In-Residence . 20 September 2017 . Library of Congress . 2018-02-01.
  8. Web site: Jer Thorp - National Geographic Society . National Geographic . 2018-02-01 . 2018-02-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180227213704/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/find-explorers/explorers/9822DA08/jer-thorp . dead .
  9. News: Swaine. Jon. 9/11 anniversary: the painstaking process to remember all the victims. The Telegraph. 2 September 2011.
  10. Book: Marshall. Julia. Donahue. David M.. Art-Centered Learning Across the Curriculum: Integrating Contemporary Art in the Secondary Classroom. 2015. Teachers College Press. 9780807773260. en.
  11. Web site: New Museum Uses Algorithms To Visualize How 9/11 Still Shapes The World. FastCo Design. Shaunacy Ferro. 2014-05-14.
  12. Cook, Gareth, and Robert Krulwich. The Best American Infographics 2016, 2016, pp. 58-59.
  13. Web site: Herald/Harbinger. Arts Brookfield. en-US. 2019-08-09.
  14. Web site: The parts of our sum. The Office for Creative Research . 2018-02-19.
  15. Book: Thorp, Jer. Living in data : a citizen's guide to a better information. 2021. 978-0-374-18990-7. 1st. New York. 1230253751.
  16. News: 2021-04-30. It's time to take back control of our data and become active data citizens, says author. CBC Radio.

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