Jen Lowe

Jen Lowe presenting her winning entry at Wikiviz in 2011

Jen Lowe is an American data scientist and professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). ^[1] Lowe has also researched at Columbia University's Spatial Information Design Laboratory, as well as co-founding the School for Poetic Computation in New York. ^{[1] [2]} She is a member of the collective Deep Lab. ^{[3] [4]}

Lowe's work is primarily focused on human interactions with data technology, most notably her One Human Heartbeat project that visualizes Lowe's own heartbeat. Lowe currently lives in New York. ^[5]

Notable work

• One Human Heartbeat, a project in which Lowe visualized her heartbeat in semi- real time. The data was on a 24-hour delay to allow for data upload, but it played in real time. ^{[1] [6]} The piece was described as "hopeful." ^[7]
• Wind Flow ^[8]
• Guayupia, a collaboration with Patricio González Vivo. The two created a map of their son's genealogy and heritage, flipping the typical direction of maps so South was at the top. ^{[9] [10]}
• The Library Project, a collaboration between Laura Kurgan and the Spatial Information Design Lab, and visualization designers Annelie Berner and Derek Watkins. ^{[11] [12]}

Published work

• The Book of Shaders ^[13]
• Two-Component Horizontal Aerosol Motion Vectors in the Atmospheric Surface Layer from a Cross-Correlation Algorithm Applied to Scanning Elastic Backscatter Lidar Data ^[14]
• Clearing Space ^[5]

References

1. Brownstone, Sydney (2014-04-08). "This Woman's Online Heartbeat Will Make You Think About Big Data And The Quantified Self". Fast Company. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
2. "A Creative Coding School Run By Artists Opens In New York". Vice.com. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
3. "Founding Members". Deep Lab. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
4. "The All-Women Hacker Collective Making Art About the Post-Snowden Age". Vice.com. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
5. "STET | Clearing space". stet.editorially.com. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
6. "One Human Heartbeat: The Pulse Of A Person, On The Web 24/7". Popular Science. 2019-03-18. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
7. Yau, Nathan (2014-03-26). "Human heartbeat". FlowingData. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
8. Wind Flow , retrieved 2021-04-02
9. "Patricio González Vivo & Jen Lowe - Guayupia". Territory. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
10. Mattern, Shannon (2017-09-26). "Mapping's Intelligent Agents". Places Journal (2017). doi: 10.22269/170926 .
11. spatialinformationdesignlab.org http://spatialinformationdesignlab.org/project_sites/library/ . Retrieved 2021-05-13.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
12. "Columbia University Library's collection visualised". Visualising Data. 2014-11-04. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
13. "The Book of Shaders". The Book of Shaders. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
14. Mayor, Shane D.; Lowe, Jennifer P.; Mauzey, Christopher F. (2012-11-01). "Two-Component Horizontal Aerosol Motion Vectors in the Atmospheric Surface Layer from a Cross-Correlation Algorithm Applied to Scanning Elastic Backscatter Lidar Data". Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 29 (11): 1585–1602. Bibcode:2012JAtOT..29.1585M. doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00225.1 . ISSN   0739-0572.