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Inspired by Simon Denny‘s and Michael Craig-Martin‘s works exhibited at the Serpentine Galleries, Power to the Point: an Evening about Infographics is a study evening dedicated to analysing the history and power of infographics and diagrams in the dissemination and organisation of ideas. The event is held on Tuesday, 2 February, 2016, 7 p.m. and will be attended by prominent Lithuanian academics Jurga Daubaraitė and Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, and architect Jonas Žukauskas. Other participants include Adam Greenfield and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera.

Jurga Daubaraitė works with art and architecture projects. Currently, together with Jonas Žukauskas and others, she is one of the curators of the Baltic Pavilion project that will represent Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania jointly for the first time at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2016. Daubaraite received an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Recent projects include a solo show and book with David Maljkovic, New Reproductions, at CAC Vilnius; the traveling artist residency, Joy and Mirror; the Lithuanian pavilion at the 54th Venice Art Biennale, Darius Mikšys, Behind the White Curtain, as well as the talk series, Dissidence through Architecture at Architektūros Fondas, Vilnius. 

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė holds a PhD in Culture Studies and is a Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University, London. She has published extensively on the history of Soviet and post-Soviet governance and predictive knowledge, including Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy: Cybernetics and Governance in Lithuania after World War II (Linköping University Press, 2008). Rindzevičiūtė also edited The Struggle for the Long Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future (Routledge, 2015), with Jenny Andersson. Her book, The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World, is forthcoming with Cornell University Press in 2016.

Jonas Žukauskas is an architect based in Vilnius. Currently, together with Jurga Daubaraite and others, he is one of curators of the Baltic Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2016, a project which re-articulates architecture in a wide ecology of spatial practices. He received his Diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, in 2014, prior to which he studied at London Metropolitan University and Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. In 2012, together with Jurga Daubaraite and Ines Weizman, he co-curated the conversation series, Dissidence Through Architecture at Architektūros Fondas, Vilnius. Žukauskas worked for MVRDV architects in Rotterdam and his work has been exhibited at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

Adam Greenfield is a writer and urbanist based in London.

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is the author of the award-winning What If Latin America Ruled the World? and more recently Story of a Death Foretold (Bloomsbury). Together with Richard Dawkins, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Schama and others, he has taken part in the acclaimed internet-based Hay Levels project. Guardiola-Rivera is a regular in the literary festival circuit, with appearances at Hay, Jaipur and Edinburgh, among many others. He's a columnist for The Guardian and El Espectador, collaborates in various radio programmes with Monocle Radio and the BBC World Service. He teaches Law and Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London.

This project is a result of the Serpentine Galleries curators visit to Vilnius in 2015 and is supported by the Lithuanian Embassy in London and Lithuanian Culture Institute. 

This event is now fully booked. Further information about the event and other events at the Serpentine Galleries can be found here: http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/power-point-evening-about-infographics