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I’m at the Open Center in New York City participating in a workshop and conference about participatory democracy for non-human and non-living others. This is my live blog of the opening session of talks from this morning. Participatory Democracy’s Non-Human and Non-Living “Others”:An International Workshop Tehseen Noorani introduces the conference. […]

WARNING: PERCEPTION REQUIRES INVOLVEMENT. By Antoni Muntadas, 2012. Presented at the Pavement Gallery. This weekend I moderated a panel for Public Space: Lost & Found, a symposium in honor of the work of Antoni Muntadas who has taught in the Art, Culture and Technology program at MIT for more than […]

I’ve been working with Ethan Zuckerman and Matt Stempeck on an alpha version of Terra Incognita: 1000 Cities of the World, a news game and recommendation system designed to help you discover relevant, fun, weird, interesting or stereotype-busting information about 1000 global cities. We are getting veeeeeery close to an […]

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist who is receiving the MIT McDermott Award in the Arts for 2014. He recently spoke at the Center for Civic Media as part of the Civic Art Initiative. Olafur details how his art practice has always been intimately intertwined with art in public space. […]