Bias is not a bug of AI. We constantly capture, classify, analyze & normalize ourselves and each other online. Normalizi.ng invites you to reflect on the past and present of this normalization. I was generously commissioned by the Science Gallery Dublin to create an online version of The Normalizing Machine – my installation exploring issues … Continue reading Normalizi.ng Online, in Dublin and in Moscow
As a part of my Latham Fellowship at the Illinois Institute of Design (IID) I was recently interviewed by Kristin Gecan for the With Intent podcast. Here’s how Kristin described it: As he explains: This data-driven world that we find ourselves living in is very, very limited in what it can offer us politically, what … Continue reading Hope and action / What Should We Make: Podcast Interview + Panel Discussion
ERROR – The Art of Imperfection is the 2018 theme of the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria and also the theme of the show they curated in Berlin. I was happy to receive an invitation to present The Normalizing Machine in this exhibition and used this opportunity to advance the piece to its new … Continue reading The Normalizing Machine (in Berlin)
“She’s on the horizon. I go two steps; she moves two steps away. I walk ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps ahead. No matter how much I walk, I’ll never reach her. What good is utopia? That’s what, it’s good for walking.” ― Eduardo Galeano, Walking words, 1995 Walk the future streets of Jerusalem … Continue reading Introducing: Speculative Tourism – walk the future streets of Jerusalem
New Project: IWBA Bank on drought by investing your first drops into our water ATM —(Temporary video documentation) About IWBA Serving as an umbrella organization for some of the world’s leading water banks, the IWBA promotes and facilitates investment in emerging drought market opportunities. In the exhibition space we are excited to launch a new water … Continue reading Introducing IWBA: The International Water Bank Association
How the simplistic network diagram came to dominate our imagination and why we shouldn’t blindly go with the flow. Continue reading If Everything is a Network, Nothing is a Network
I was invited by my friends at the School For Poetic Computation (SFPC) to share some teaching tips with fellow design and technology teachers following their Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn conference from last week. It is based on my Digital Platforms class for 2nd year students at Shenkar College‘s Visual Communication program (and previously at Parsons and Bezalel) I usually prepare the class in advance with a blogpost so here goes:
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Can dataviz evoke empathy? Should it even? And if so how? First post in a series towards The Responsible Data Forum on the topic of Data Visualization, Jan 2016, NYC. Read my full post on ResponsibleData.io Continue reading Dataviz—The UnEmpathetic Art
Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner invited me for a Data Stories interview, their fascinating podcast (I’m a long time fan). We discussed Disnformation Visualization, data activism and budget transparency in Israel and data obfuscation with AdNauseam. Check it out… Continue reading Data Stories Podcast #55: with me
I’ll be giving 3 talks this week on my short visit to New York and Boston. Tweet me if you might be around and would like to make it: AdNauseam and Obfuscation @ SFPC Monday, April 20th 3pm. School For Poetic Computation – 155 Rivington St., Floor 4, New York, NY 10002 As online advertising … Continue reading 3 talks at SFPC (NY), MassArt and The MIT Media Lab (Boston)
