Panel Discussion - Visualizing Complexity

About this event

We talk about complexity all the time at the Lounge. For this session, we’ve invited four cartoonists, artists, and information designers who have made it the subject of their work. Join us for a conversation about how we see complexity. Bios Nicola Cerioli specializes in making complex data explorable. He works and teaches at Aalto University, where he leads the collaboration with FinnGen, building visualization tools for molecular biology. Sarah Firth is an artist, author, and graphic recorder based in Melbourne. Her graphic essay “Dancing With Complexity” was acquired for display at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, and her debut graphic novel, Eventually Everything Connects, won the Emily Toth Award and a Gold Ledger Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Virpi Oinonen draws comics about complex problems and the simplistic solutions that keep making them worse. She is the author of Reality Strikes Back: A Cartoon Guide to Complexity. businessillustrator.com/book (https://www.businessillustrator.com/book) Nick Sousanis is an Eisner-winning comics author and an associate professor at San Francisco State University, where he founded and runs an interdisciplinary Comics Studies program. His book Unflattening (Harvard University Press, 2015) began as his doctoral dissertation, written and drawn entirely in comics form. spinweaveandcut.com (https://www.spinweaveandcut.com) \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- This event will be recorded. The event link will be published on meetup.com 1 hour prior to the event. Please note the time slot- this is a late afternoon event for those of you on EST (3:00 pm to 5:00 pm).