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The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality hired me to design a map of Israel for every one of its more than 2000 classes in the city. The news leaked even before September 1st and the Ministry of Education (?) rushed to ban the map for attempting to teach our kids about the complexity of our borders. Admirably, … Continue reading I designed a map of my country, you won’t believe what happened next…
Normalizi.ng was installed at the HMKV in Dortmund for the show House of Mirrors: Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm curated by Inke Arns, Francis Hunger & Marie Lechner. It have also opened recently at Madrid’s Foundation Telefonica as well in the Codes and algorithms: Wisdom in a calculated world curated by Manuela Naveau. More announcements coming … Continue reading More Normalizi.ng @ Dortmund & Madrid
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
I was invited by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine D’Ignazio & Kristin Veel to contribute a chapter to the Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data book published by MIT Press. The full title of the chapter is Obfuscation is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral it discusses the politics … Continue reading My Obfuscation chapter @ Uncertain Archives book
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
Using Data to Inspire Humans and Baffle Machines.
*I’m experimenting with cross-posting on Medium, let’s see how it goes… Continue reading Re:ambiguation
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
