Visualizing Marathon 2010
A 24-hour student data visualization competition
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Welcome
Visualizing.org is proud to have held the inaugural Visualizing Marathon: a 24-hour student data visualization competition. Inspired by robotics competitions and science fairs, the Marathon was created to give design students an opportunity to collaborate and use design to help tackle real-world issues. It was a fun and intense weekend full of speakers, performances, and of course, the actual competition. The Marathon was held over the Oct 22-24 weekend at Eyebeam in New York.
Visualizing Marathon 2010 NYC.
The Challenge
Set by design leaders at the Cooper Hewitt's Why Design Now? Solving Global Challenges conference, the challenge focused on a complex world issue that could be better understood with data and design.
The Jury
Paola Antonelli, Chair
Senior Curator, Architecture & Design, MoMA
Manuel Lima
Founder, VisualComplexity.com
David McCandless
Author, The Visual Miscellaneum & InformationisBeautiful.net
Amanda McDonald Crowley
Executive Director, Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology
Adam Bly
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Seed
Beth Comstock
CMO, GE & Trustee, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Marathon Opening
The Marathon officially opened on Friday, October 22nd and was kicked off with a night of speaker presentations and a party that included an interactive VJ performance.
Speakers:Paola Antonelli,
Senior Curator, Architecture & Design, MoMA
Jer Thorp,
Data Artist in Residence, New York Times/Founder, blprnt
Lisa Strausfeld,
Partner, Pentagram
Brooke Singer,
Fellow, Eyebeam
Tahir Hemphill,
Fellow, Eyebeam
SuperDraw performance and MultiDraw installation by Joshue Ott with music by Ezekiel Honig and David Last
Agenda
Future Marathons
Based on the overwhelming success of our NYC Marathon in 2010, we will be hosting a set of marathons around the world in 2011. (Entrance is free for all students)
If you are interested in participating in marathons in the following cities, please let us know:
- Sao Paulo
- London
- Melbourne
- Sydney
- Munich
- New York
