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AI SEMINAR

Speaker: Laila Sakr , University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts

Talk Title: /sentiment analysis_fail

Series: AISeminar

Abstract: Abstract:This presentation traces the evolution of a digital archive to a machine learning, knowledge management system. R-Shief.org houses four data collections, current search engine (Kal3a), Arab Smart Engine, interactive visualizers, and index. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges to normalize uneven data inputs into one system or database. This requires building a network where each data point has its position and function in relation to all the other data points. When the size, speed, and variety of the data reaches a threshold, new, creative methods are developed to keep all the pieces working together. It is in the relationality of the data to each other where machine learning can take place and programs can be built to be “smart.” By 2014, I would say that the methodological shift to using big data in textual analysis in the humanities has meant a shift from big data to smart data--or big, smart data. will provide a vision of a body of work at the intersection of technology, media arts, and politics. The data visualizations, social media analytics, interactive media, VJ performances, and computational art showcased are poised between multiple worlds (art/science, culture/technology, east/west, macro/micro, history/real-time, theory/practice, scholarship/activism).

Biography: Bio: Laila Shereen Sakr is VJ Um Amel online. She is a PhD candidate in Media Arts + Practice at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and founder of the digital lab, R-Shief, Inc. With a background in poetry and graphic design, her current practices include digital media arts, visualization, and performance. Her work archives and maps the recent Arab uprisings and Occupy movements through semantic analysis of social media feeds in Arabic, Persian, French, English, Spanish, German. As a VJ, she uses data visualization and live cinema performance to demonstrate how embodied habits of communication are expressed virtually, and to understand how communities use technology to design their own narratives and worlds. She has exhibited at the San Francisco MoMA, National Gallery of Art in Jordan, Camera Austria, Cultura Digital in Brazil, DC Fridge Art Gallery, among other venues. Her work has also been published in Middle East Critique, Parson’s Journal for Information Mapping, ThoughtMesh, Jadaliyya, and in an edited volume on Mediating the Arab Uprisings. She holds an M.F.A. in Digital Arts and New Media from University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. Recent reviews appear in The Wall Street Journal, Science, Art Territories, Fast Company, Digital Media and Learning, Egypt Independent, and The Creators Project. http://vjumamel.com

Caption for image: Tweet World: A 3D Game in Unity transforms a 2D data visualization of 500,000 tweets on #Syria into a 3D immersive environment



Host: Greg Ver Steeg

Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=be33305d8976432d85f08102899de2ca1d

Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 1135

WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=be33305d8976432d85f08102899de2ca1d

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Alma Nava / Information Sciences Institute