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SUMMARY:Technospirit Day
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the 7th day of the NYC PIT Pop Up! Today’s PIT theme is: Technospirit. \nTechnospirit Day Schedule: \nDaily Demos: 2:00pm-6:00pm \n\nReinventing the Wheel: A Conversation in Future Retrospect\nBody in Beta\nArtificial Agency – SOUR GUMMIES DON’T CRY\n\nThe Reboot: 6:00pm-7:30pm
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/technospirit-day/
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:Reinventing the Wheel: A Conversation in Future Retrospect
DESCRIPTION:Reinventing the Wheel: A Conversation in Future Retrospect is a participatory art/community activism project that will involve multi-modal efforts over the past 25 years to change paradigms of climate inaction. It will reinvent the conceptualization of technology to incorporate a wide array of tools\, discourses\, networks\, methods. The project will inform a nuanced approach to public interest technology\, featuring storymaps\, videos\, artmaking\, small agriculture\, urban concepts\, children’s lessons\, counter-narratives\, video game designs\, eco-parks\, citizen science\, and permaculture\, as systems to imagine more equitable social relations. \nThe installation will include interactive elements as well as workshop-based “happenings” intended to challenge previously unexamined concepts related to the human-earth-technology relationship. It will draw from numerous interventions\, from the classroom to community organizing and from political advocacy to law. \nReinventing the Wheel: A Conversation in Future Retrospect is presented by Jason Michael Leggett\, Center for Civic Engagement at Kingsborough Community College.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/reinventing-the-wheel-a-conversation-in-future-retrospect/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Kingsborough Center for Civic Engagement":MAILTO:kcccenter.civicengagement@kbcc.cuny.edu
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SUMMARY:Body in Beta
DESCRIPTION:Body in Beta is a participatory AR installation that lets visitors see themselves through the logic of computer vision—while reclaiming that gaze as play. Using open-source facial-tracking and generative graphics\, the work overlays dynamic “data masks” on participants’ faces that respond to micro-movements: a blink\, a tilt\, a smile. Each mask is uniquely generated and disappears afterwards; nothing is recorded. The result is a civic funhouse mirror where visibility becomes collaboration rather than extraction. \nThe installation bridges art\, fashion\, and civic technology to question how systems recognize and classify us. Within the public interest technology frame\, Body in Beta reimagines surveillance infrastructure as a site of transparency and consent. It makes the normally hidden operations of facial recognition visible\, tangible\, and safe to play with. By turning the camera into a tool for co-creation\, the project celebrates experimentation\, collective authorship\, and the right to opacity—showing that public technology can be both critical and joyful. \nBody in Beta is rooted in queer futurism and posthuman media practices that understand technology not as tool or commodity\, but as a porous extension of the body—something that dreams\, leaks\, and remembers alongside us. The project takes seriously the idea that machines are not neutral; they are companions in world-making\, spiritual prosthetics that can carry both care and violence. To inhabit “beta” is to accept incompleteness as a condition of justice: a technology—and a self—forever under revision\, vulnerable to update\, error\, and reconfiguration. \nIn the language of Public Interest Technology\, Body in Beta proposes that transparency and accountability need not oppose magic and sensuality. The project turns algorithmic recognition into a participatory rite of transformation—one where civic engagement looks like embodied speculation\, and technological literacy begins in wonder. It asks: what if our interfaces were built not for extraction\, but for reverence? What if consent\, care\, and glitch were sacred design principles? \nWithin the reflective glass of The Oculus\, Body in Beta becomes both altar and laboratory: a temporary commons where we test how to live\, feel\, and appear together inside the machine. It embodies a techno-spiritual ethic—queer\, diasporic\, iterative—that sees the future not as something to be predicted\, but as something we co-compose through our gestures\, our faces\, and our shared desire to remain unfinished. \nBody in Beta is a project by Vinh Mai Nguyễn\, graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (’25). \nAbout Vinh Mai Nguyễn: \nVinh Mai Nguyễn is an artist\, writer\, and researcher working at the intersection of language\, digital interface\, and cultural memory. Their practice investigates permeabilities and surfaces as unstable systems that morph across touch\, screen\, and time.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/body-in-beta/
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:Artificial Agency - SOUR GUMMIES DON'T CRY
DESCRIPTION:Where is our agency in the age of algorithms? During this live\, interactive performance lecture by Mengna Da\, the audience can control the artist’s body via a custom web app on their phones. As the artist executes the commands in real time\, she will simultaneously give a talk on agency in the contexts of data surveillance\, body politics\, digital labor\, and AI. How is the illusion of agency used as a means of digital (self-)colonization? Facing the challenges of algorithmic control and AI\, how can we reclaim our agency? \nAs the performance unfolds with composed and live music by Chienn Tai\, the artist begins to share labor and agency with the avatars as well as the audience\, creating a system that challenges traditional HCI (Human-Computer Interaction). It is also a social experiment that questions who holds power – is it the artist\, the audience\, or an interconnected system that generates a more collective and fluid type of agency through ongoing interactions? \nArtificial Agency – SOUR GUMMIES DON’T CRY is a project by Mengna Da (NYU – ITP/IMA) and Chienn Tai. \nAbout Mengna Da and Chienn Tai: \nLead Artist: Mengna Da (she/they/it) is a multimedia artist\, producer\, and designer. She connects people\, concepts\, and technology to create interactive stories and experiences about agency\, power/play\, cyberfeminist embodiment\, and meaningful discomfort. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Resident in Interactive Media Arts at New York University. (mengna-da.com) \nMusician: Chienn Tai (she/they) is a Taiwanese composer\, producer\, and multimedia artist based in New York. Her work explores the emotional and psychological dimensions of the body and emotions through sound\, performance\, and creative technology.\nAfter earning a Master’s degree from NYU Tisch School of the Arts\, Chienn has developed a strong focus on composition and film scoring\, creating music for films and theater\, and currently serves as the Digital Arts Curator at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle. (chienntai.com)
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/artificial-agency-sour-gummies-dont-cry/
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 7
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-7/
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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