Pelagios Visualisation Talk with Mitchell Whitelaw, 5 October 2023 (online via Zoom)

11am BST, 8pm ACT, 12pm CET, 6am(!) ET

We are delighted that Mitchell Whitelaw, Professor at the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University has agreed to deliver the annual Pelagios open visualisation talk on the topic of ‘Visualising Lively Data’. Prof. Whitelaw's concept of Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections has offered valuable insights for heritage engagement and we look forward to hearing about his latest work.

The living world is increasingly captured and represented through data. While this data is shaped by scientific models of knowledge, biodiversity data might also offer new and urgent forms of engagement with a more-than-human world. Through a series of recent projects and experimental research, this talk asks how we might design more “lively” visual interfaces to this lively data.

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Gethin Rees & Stephen Gadd

Coordinators of the Pelagios Visualisation activity

The Pelagios Network is a global community of researchers, scientists and curators using Linked Data methods and tools to investigate the past. Within this community the Visualisation Activity exists to promote discussion of the illustration and dissemination of spatial data and networks. Many of you will remember the fascinating talk given last year by Olivia Vane, about her work on data visualisation for The Economist. In previous years speakers have included Elijah Meeks and Johanna Drucker.

Professor Whitelaw is based at the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University, and is an academic, writer and maker with interests in digital design and culture, data practices, more-than-human worlds and digital collections. His teaching and research takes up data and code to seek out moments of insight and delight that intensify our engagement with a complex world. His work has appeared in journals including Leonardo, Digital Creativity, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and Senses and Society. He has worked with institutions including the State Library of NSW, the State Library of Queensland, the National Archives and the National Gallery of Australia, developing "generous" interfaces to their digital collections. His current research investigates environmental and biodiversity visualisation, and digital design for a more-than-human world.

Dr Gethin Rees

Lead Curator, Digital Mapping

British Library