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Thinking with Sand: A Talk Series Exploring New Software Tools for Creative Exploration and Augmented Thinking

Char Stiles

Friday — Friday
November 22, 2024 —
December 20, 2024
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET

Join the Future Sketches group on Fridays from 12 – 1pm ET for the Lunch Lectures Fall 2024 edition: Thinking With Sand, a virtual talk series exploring new software interfaces and tools for augmented thinking and creative exploration.

The Future Sketches group is pleased to announce a series of public talks focused on artists and researchers working with and thinking about tomorrow's digital tools! From experimental creative coding environments to novel visualization techniques, our speakers explore the cutting edge of digital interaction design. Each session features a presentation followed by Q+A sessions.

Starting November 22. Scroll to the bottom of the page for the Zoom link!

 Featuring:

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Kawandeep Virdee (November 22 at 12pm ET)
Kawandeep (@whichlight) makes art, ranging from interactive web experiments, to public art, to spaces to be creative together. In his works, he uses emerging tech to explore ideas of playfulness, expressiveness, collaboration, and joy. He is the author of Feeling Great About My Butt. You can find him most Thursdays drawing, talking ideas, and making zines at drink & draw & hang in Oakland. Currently, he a creative technologist prototyping future experiences with AI at Google Labs.

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Linus Lee

Linus Lee (December 6 at 12pm ET)
Linus (@thesephist) investigates the future of knowledge representation and creative work through software interfaces that harness machine understanding of language to enhance human thought and imagination. His research explores post-linguistic systems of knowledge and creation, building tools that expand the boundaries of human cognition and experience.

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Maggie Appleton

Maggie Appleton (December 13 at 12pm ET)
Maggie (@Mappletons) sits at the intersection of design, anthropology, and programming, creating illustrated essays that explore how technology shapes our world through cultural symbols and metaphors. While she leads design engineering at Normally, an AI-focused design studio, her work spans digital gardening, end-user programming, and the role of embodied cognition in digital interfaces.

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Amelia Wattenberger

Amelia Wattenberger (December 20 at 12pm ET)
Amelia (@Wattenberger) is a Staff Engineer prototyping our way to future developer experiences at GitHub Next. She has lived at the intersection of web development, design, and data visualization for the past decade, and is the author of Fullstack D3 and Data Visualization.

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Join us as we explore the next generation of digital interfaces and imagine new possibilities for tooling around data and thought!

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