Patricio Dávila is a designer, artist, researcher and educator. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, at York University. Patricio is co-director of Public Visualization Lab/Studio (PVLS) a networked lab and studio (York U, OCADU, TMU) and focusses on how visualization can operate as a critical design and media practice. A priority for PVLS is to understand the ways that the representation of data is political as well as analytical and creative. A basic premise that guides PVLS’s projects is that visualization is an assemblage that arranges people, things and processes and as such demands a commitment to ethics, accountability and meaningful participation. Patricio’s research and practice focuses on the politics and aesthetics of participation in the visualization of spatial issues with a specific focus on urban experiences, mobile technologies and large-scale interactive public installations. His research focuses on developing a theoretical framework for examining data visualization as assemblages of subjectivation and power. His recent publications include Critical Visualization: Beyond the Representation of Data (Bloomsbury UK) and Diagrams of Power (Onomatopee and Set Margins’). His curatorial projects include Multiplex Essay Film Festival and the Diagrams of Power exhibition, research events. In his creative practice, he has created mobile applications, locative media projects, essay videos, photography, new media installations, and participatory community projects including: Frozen Lake, Atmospheres, Passing Through the Heart, Fabulous Ones, Receipts, Shadows!, Powers of Kin, Chthuluscene, Tent City Projections, The Line, and In The Air Tonight.

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