FutureEverything Conference
I was speaking at FutureEverything Conference 2015 as part of the session "What now for memory and identity?".
Related projects
Selfiecity
A study of the selfie phenomenon
The project investigates the seemingly mundane topic of selfies with a mix of techniques, ranging from theory over quantitive analysis to visualization and artistic expression. In this highly interdisciplinary project, I had the creative lead for design, data visualization and data analysis.
ON BROADWAY
What can data tell us about a single street?
This interactive installation represents life in the 21st-century city through a compilation of images and data collected along the 13 miles of Broadway that span Manhattan. The result is a new type of city view, created from the activities of hundreds of thousands of people.
More talks
Beyond the bar chart
Talk at KIKK Festival 2026 in the Grande Salle of the Théâtre de Namur.
Underground Science. Underground Stories.
At the Narrative Change Summit of the Climate Film Festival during NYC Climate Week, I joined a session convened by SPUN on why data alone so rarely moves people, and what makes science stick. I showed how we turned SPUN's maps of underground fungal networks into A Hidden Infrastructure, then talked science storytelling with Toby Kiers (SPUN), Alessandra Yupanqui (Sapiens) and Willow Defebaugh (Atmos), moderated by Mandy Nguyen.
VISCOMM keynote 2025
As invited keynote speaker for the VISCOMM workshop at IEEE VIS conference, I talked about current trends in data visualization, my design approach, and how our profession is changing in the recent wave of AI tools.