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SUMMARY:Robot & Justice Day
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the 8th day of the NYC PIT Pop Up! Today is Robot & Justice Day. \nRobot & Justice Day Schedule: \nDaily Demos: 2:00pm-6:00pm \n\nHometown XR\nCollective Atlas\nShining a Light on 3\,000+ Massachusetts Police Records\nIt’s Completely Anonymous\nTrustworthy\, Intelligent\, & Explainable Robotics (TIER) Lab\n\nThe Reboot: 6:00pm-7:30pm
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/robot-justice-day/
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:Hometown XR
DESCRIPTION:  \nHometown XR is an interactive project that explores the intersections of memory\, identity\, and technology by transforming digital traces into evolving audiovisual experiences. Drawing from large-scale web archives such as Common Crawl and incorporating audience participation\, the project visualizes “hometown memories” through AI-generated imagery and sound. These memories are then reimagined in projection-based installations\, creating immersive experiences that merge the real and virtual. \nThe project raises critical questions about data ethics and representation: How do AI systems interpret human memory? Whose stories are included or excluded in digital archives? By inviting the public to contribute their own memories\, Hometown XR reclaims personal data from corporate commodification and turns it into a medium for storytelling\, reflection\, and community dialogue. \nThe project engages tech justice by revealing the biases embedded in AI training data and reclaiming personal and cultural narratives from algorithmic control. Through participatory interaction\, Hometown XR transforms digital memory into a shared\, ethical practice\, imagining technological futures grounded in diversity\, empathy\, and community care rather than exploitation or exclusion. \nHometown XR demonstrates how emerging technologies can be reimagined for the public good. Rather than reinforcing profit-driven uses of data\, the project foregrounds collective memory\, cultural diversity\, and inclusivity. It invites visitors to see technology not just as a tool of extraction\, but as a means of fostering connection\, dialogue\, and equity in civic life. \nHometown XR is a project by Wenjun Chen. You can view more of Wenjun’s work\, here.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/hometown-xr/
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:Collective Atlas
DESCRIPTION:  \nCollective Atlas invites New Yorkers to map places in the city that matter to them\, entirely from memory. These maps range from meticulous street grids to abstract gestures. Even when participants map the same place\, the drawings reveal how differently we hold space in memory: what stands out\, what fades\, what stretches\, or distorts. \nEach hand-drawn map reflects a personal geography that disrupts the fixity of conventional maps\, challenging assumptions about orientation\, accuracy\, and authority. Together\, they form an atlas of the city as lived rather than prescribed\, demonstrating that mapping is not only technical\, but personal\, cultural\, and emotional. Visitors are invited to contribute their own maps to add to the archive\, and see\, side by side\, how diverse our visualizations of place can be. \nCollective Atlas is an inversion of power: maps become bottom-up acts of storytelling instead of top-down tools of surveillance and control. In the context of public interest technology\, it reframes mapping as a tool of justice and imagination\, challenging extractive\, data-driven models with intimate\, human-scale knowledge. \nPreviously presented at BetaNYC’s Open Data Week\, the work has since traveled across the city through pop-ups\, public schools\, and artist-led community events. \nCollective Atlas is presented by Queenie Wu.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/collective-atlas/
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:Shining a Light on 3\,000+ Massachusetts Police Records
DESCRIPTION:Shining a Light on 3\,000+ Massachusetts Police Records is an interactive demo of a front-end platform to house thousands of public records acquired by the ACLU of Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Project on policing and use of surveillance tech by government agencies. The database makes it possible to filter and search within these documents for names and geographies of interest. \nShining a Light on 3\,000+ Massachusetts Police Records is presented by Julie Lee\, former Technology for Liberty Fellow at the ACLU of Massachusetts.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/shining-a-light-on-3000-massachusetts-police-records/
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:It's Completely Anonymous
DESCRIPTION:It’s Completely Anonymous (2024) is a participatory online platform where visitors slow down to answer the question left by the previous participant\, and then leave a new question for the next person. Instead of profiles\, metrics\, or surveillance\, the project creates an evolving chain of anonymous exchanges\, really to be seen as an archive built through reciprocity\, curiosity\, and care. \nAt the NYC PIT Pop Up\, participants will engage with the platform in real time\, encountering the words of strangers and contributing their own. Each interaction sustains a shared dialogue that spans across time\, emphasizing presence without visibility and connection without identity. \nThe project explores what becomes possible when we design platforms that resist speed\, extraction\, and quantification. The site was hand-coded / developed using html\, css\, javascript\, and perl. By centering anonymity and slowness as civic values\, It’s Completely Anonymous imagines a digital commons where participation is grounded in reflection rather than performance. \nIt’s Completely Anonymous is a project by Emily D’Achiardi\, University of California\, Santa Barbara.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/its-completely-anonymous/
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:Trustworthy\, Intelligent\, & Explainable Robotics (TIER) Lab
DESCRIPTION:At the Trustworthy\, Intelligent\, and Explainable Robotics (TIER) Lab\, our mission is to develop robots for social good. We aim to design and develop robotic systems that not only intelligent and robust but also trustworthy\, transparent\, ethical\, and inclusive. \nOur research is at the intersection of artificial intelligence\, human-robot interaction\, machine learning\, robotics\, cognitive science\, and ethics. The TIER lab was founded in September 2023 at Hunter College\, CUNY. \nResearch Areas: \n\nHuman-Robot Interaction (HRI): Designing robots that can navigate crowded human environments\, communicate decisions\, and build trust with users.\nExplainable AI & Robotics: Developing systems that can provide clear\, natural language explanations for their actions\, fostering user understanding and accountability.\nCognitive Models & Decision-Making: Drawing inspiration from human cognition to design adaptive robot navigation and planning systems.\nMulti-Objective & Multi-Agent Planning: Using voting-based algorithms from social choice theory to enable fair\, efficient group decision-making in robot teams.\nEthics\, Diversity & Inclusion in AI: Investigating how AI and robotics impact marginalized communities and creating participatory\, justice-oriented design methods.\nQueer-Inclusive Robotics: Exploring how robotic companions and systems can better serve LGBTQ+ communities.\n\nThe TIER Lab’s current projects span social robot navigation\, multi-robot coordination\, foundation models for robotics\, bias detection in large language model-powered robots\, trust in robotics\, and queer-inclusive design. \nPresented by Raj Korpan\, Director of TIER Lab\, CUNY Hunter College.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/trustworthy-intelligent-explainable-robotics-tier-lab/
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 8
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-8/
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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