The Eyeo Festival is a yearly conference for artists who work with data and code. It takes place in

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. The conference began in 2011, and has taken place yearly since then, typically at the

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. Due to the

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, the event was put on pause for 2020 and 2021.

Organizers and speakers

The event is organized by Dave Schroeder, Jer Thorp, Caitlin Rae Hargarten, and Wes Grubs. The conference features speakers who work in data visualization, creative coders and hackers. Past speakers include Amanda Cox,

Stefanie Posavec Stefanie Posavec is a London-based information designer whose work focuses on non-traditional representations of data, born in 1981. She co-authored the 2016 book ''Dear Data'' with Giorgia Lupi. Education Posavec graduated from Colorado State ...

and Giorgia Lupi (who met at eyeo in 2013), Mike Bostock, Nicholas Felton, Adam Harvey,

Paola Antonelli Paola Antonelli (born 1963 in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy) is an Italian author, editor, architect, and curator. She is currently the Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design as well as the Director of R&D at the Museum of Modern ...

, Roman Verostko, Frieder Nake, Lillian Schwartz,

Fernanda Viégas Fernanda Bertini Viégas (born 1971) is a Brazilian computer scientist and graphical designer, whose work focuses on the social, collaborative and artistic aspects of information visualization. Biography Viégas studied graphic design and art h ...

and Martin Wattenberg, Ben Fry,

Rachel Binx Rachel Binx is an American data visualizer, developer, and designer. She is the co-founder of Meshu and Gifpop, two companies that create physical objects, such as maps and animated GIFs, from social data. Binx has also worked at Stamen Design a ...

, Moritz Stefaner, Jenny Odell, Lauren McCarthy,

Kyle McDonald Kyle McDonald is a media artist. McDonald creates visually appealing models using code, and releases tool kits for other artists to customize their own art as they see fit. McDonald was recently an adjunct professor at New York University Tisch S ...

Samuel Sinyangwe Samuel Sinyangwe (born May 12, 1990) is an American policy analyst and racial justice activist. Sinyangwe is a member of the Movement for Black Lives, the founder of Mapping Police Violence, a database of police killings in the United States and ...

, Zachary Lieberman,

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Everest Pipkin Everest Pipkin is a drawing, game, and software artist from Central Texas, who produces intimate work with large data sets. Early life Pipkin's parents worked with a nonprofit organization called The Nobelity Project, and they began their artisti ...

Meredith Whittaker Meredith Whittaker is the president of the Signal Foundation and serves on their board of directors. She was formerly the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and the co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute. ...

Catherine D'Ignazio Catherine D'Ignazio (also known as kanarinka) is an American professor, artist, and software developer who focuses on feminism and data literacy. She is the director of the Data + Feminism lab at MIT. D'Ignazio is best known for her hackathons ...

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Nadieh Bremer Nadieh Bremer is a data scientist and data visualization designer. She is based out of a small town outside of Amsterdam. Education Bremer graduated cum laude from Leiden University with Masters of Science in Astronomy. She also attended Unive ...

References

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