UPDATE: Unfortunately we have to cancel this event due to a family emergency. Please join us in wishing Kyuha and his family well. We’ll try to reschedule this event at a later date.
Are you ready to meet in person again? Accion Labs is hosting our event featuring Kyuha Shim, Director of the Computational Creativity Lab.
About the Talk
How might we utilize data for effective communication? Exploring the roles and ways designers can use data as material, the Computational Creativity Lab in recent projects has focused on collecting, fusing, and visualizing data for storytelling human experiences.
About Kyuha
Kyuha Shim is a designer, researcher, and educator. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is the Director of the Computational Creativity Lab. He serves as a National Steering Committee Member for the Design Educators Community (DEC) of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and Education Director of AIGA Pittsburgh. He has been awarded residencies and fellowships at Jan van Eyck Academie, Frans Masereel Centrum, Meta Open Arts (formerly, Facebook Analog Research Lab). He also previously worked at LUST, MIT Senseable City Laboratory, and Vinyl. His work has been exhibited internationally at places including Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Museu Nacional da República, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and ggg Gallery in Tokyo and in design festivals including AGI Open, Beijing Design Week, London Design Festival, Typojanchi Biennial and Seoul Design Olympic. He holds an MFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and conducted doctoral research at the Royal College of Art.
About Our Host
We’re thankful for Accion hosting our event and providing refreshments for our attendees. Without their sponsorship, this event would not be possible.
Founded in Pittsburgh, PA in 2011, Accion is a leader in helping technology companies and enterprises leverage the power of emerging technologies. Accion’s expertise ranges across advanced UX, artificial intelligence and machine learning, big-data/analytics, migration to cloud/SaaS and re-engineering of legacy platforms, process automation, mobility, augmented reality, and IoT. The company’s clients include software product companies, e-SaaS firms, e-business organizations, and enterprises undergoing a digital transformation across a range of industries such as healthcare, financial services, technology, and fintech. Accion has more than 5,000 employees across 20+ offices within the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Asia-Pacific.