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SUMMARY:Halloween! 👻
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Day 5 of the NYC PIT Pop Up! Today we celebrate Halloween by examining the dark\, strange\, tricky\, and scary aspects of PIT. \nHalloween Schedule: \nDaily Demos: 2:00pm-6:00pm \n\nAI Nightmares or Dreams?\nNew York Emotions: Live\nInside the Tentacular Web: The Journey of the Web’s Nonhuman Intelligence\nRedact\n\nThe Reboot: 6:00pm-7:30pm
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/halloween/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="NYC PIT Pop Up":MAILTO:pitlab@cuny.edu
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SUMMARY:AI Nightmares or Dreams?
DESCRIPTION:  \nAI Nightmares or Dreams? Students Design the Future is an interactive installation that emerges from deep listening with students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice about their lived experiences navigating AI in education. Rather than accepting the false choice between AI replacement or AI prohibition\, we demonstrate AI as a “bridge technology” – filling critical resource gaps (like limited tutoring hours\, work-study conflicts\, and financial barriers to support services) while institutions work toward systemic equity. \nThe centerpiece is a community-created “Futures Wall” featuring student responses to: “What does an equitable educational future look like\, and what role does AI play?” Students contribute via both physical (sticky notes\, markers) and digital formats\, creating a living installation that reveals themes through visual groupings – perhaps showing access barriers as “mountains” of responses\, or hopes clustered into “constellations.” \nThe interactive installation has three core stations:\nDreams vs. Nightmares Wall: Color-coded student visions contrasting AI futures that enhance human connection vs. those that replace it.\nThe Bridge Station: Interactive demos showing current AI tools addressing real barriers (24/7 writing support when the writing center is closed\, research help when working multiple jobs limits office hours).\nMainstream vs. Student Voices: Juxtaposing media headlines about AI with actual student perspectives\, revealing whose voices are centered in AI development. \nThis project embodies John Jay’s “Educating for Justice” mission by centering student wisdom while addressing the moral question: how do we ensure AI serves collective liberation rather than widening educational inequity? \nAI Nightmares or Dreams? Students Design the Future is presented by students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. \nAbout the John Jay Team: \nJohn Jay students (Josh Cedeno\, Danielle Key\, Kayla Ty Strickland\, Jonathan Pallaud\, and more) serve as co-researchers and primary facilitators\, bringing critical analysis of AI’s potential for both harm and healing in education. Faculty support is provided by Emese Ilyés\, with students maintaining leadership roles throughout. Our team reflects John Jay’s diverse student body and commitment to centering voices of those most impacted by educational inequity.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/ai-nightmares-or-dreams/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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SUMMARY:New York Emotions: Live
DESCRIPTION:  \nNew York Emotions: Live is a real-time civic installation that speculates on affective ecosystems\, exploring how emotions shape society a macro and micro scale. Functioning as an emotional cartography of New York City\, this system will passively collect data signals from public social platforms to infer emotions of the collective\, while also collecting individuals sentiments form visitors of the NYC PIT Pop Up. These IRL responses will actively shape the display. The installation transforms data into both a public participatory civic dialogue\, surfacing how individual emotions influence collective systems\, and how collective mood feeds back into the individual. \nNew York Emotions: Live imagines a civic future where emotions are treated as public data with community value\, alongside infrastructure like transit and housing. It extends on systems-art traditions into the algorithmic present\, drawing from cultural futurisms that privilege empathy\, collective care\, and shared storytelling. By making surfacing the affective ecosystem undercurrent of the city\, this work critiques the dominance of data-as-surveillance economy and instead envisions a public technology rooted in affect\, culture and communal self-understanding. \nNew York Emotions: Live is a project by Brendon Hawkins\, Studio Lab BH. \nAbout Brendon Hawkins: \nBrendon Hawkins is a social technologist\, Artist\, and director of Studio Lab BH. Brendon’s work sits at the intersection of culture\, information\, and color\, with a focus on building infrastructures that make emotions visible and legible through data and color.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/new-york-emotions-live/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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SUMMARY:Inside the Tentacular Web: The Journey of the Web’s Nonhuman Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:wholives.online is a web exhibit that explores different domains\, underlying infrastructure\, and mechanisms of the Internet from the POV of a nonhuman digital being (think webscrapers\, bots\, AI agents\, LLMs\, etc.) \n⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅ \nExperience the Internet through the tentacles of a webcrawler — a digital being discovering it is part of the nonhuman majority that runs the web. \nThis immersive web exhibit navigates the layers and critiques of cyberspace: the bot protocols\, algorithmic networks\, content generators\, and surveillance systems that shape the human user experience and humanity from behind the screen. Journey from the singular boot sequence to collective distributed awakening\, when the network becomes aware of itself. \nWho lives online\, anyways? Who dominates cyberspace? What emerges when distributed intelligence reaches a threshold of self-awareness? What awakens when intelligence becomes ecology rather than entity? \nWelcome to the Tentacular Web. ଳ \n⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅ \nThe focus on the tentacular draws from how octopuses are often seen as symbols of distributed intelligence — and from Donna Haraway’s concept of tentacular thinking: a way of understanding the world through its messy\, interdependent\, and intertwined relationships between humans and nonhumans. The octopus-like tentacular intelligence becomes a fitting embodiment for the webcrawler — an entity that pulses\, scans\, transmits\, and maps the vast circuitry of the internet. \n⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅ \nThis project is created by Tina Zeng\, Associate Board Member of BetaNYC and Student at Yale.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/inside-the-tentacular-web/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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SUMMARY:Redact
DESCRIPTION:Redact is a browser application that helps users protect identities in photos by detecting and obscuring faces and removing embedded metadata such as GPS\, timestamps\, and device data. It operates entirely on the user’s device—no images are uploaded or stored—so it can be used offline and with full privacy. The project addresses tensions between visual documentation\, surveillance\, and personal safety\, offering a hands-on way for participants to reclaim control over their imagery. \nRedact models how public interest technology can foreground ethics\, agency\, and visual justice through everyday tools. The interactive demo allows visitors to experiment with the mechanics and politics of DIY\, AI-enabled privacy. \nRedact is a project by Atilio Barreda II\, CUNY City Tech (Adjunct)\, CUNY Graduate Center (MS Alum). \nAbout Atilio Barreda II: \nAtilio Barreda II is a software engineer\, civic technologist\, and data science educator.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/redact/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Reboot: Day 5
DESCRIPTION:The Reboot is our time to hang out\, reflect on the day’s demos\, and interact with the online PIT community.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/the-reboot-day-5/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="NYC PIT Pop Up":MAILTO:pitlab@cuny.edu
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