• Affective Landmarking – An App to Close Read with Your Emotions

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Come interact with a tool that turns close reading into a color spectrum. Affective Landmarking is an annotation style where readers highlight passages in a text and tag them with emotional responses, such as fear, joy, etc. Those tags are visualized in real time, mapping the diverse reading experiences to reflect emotional clusters, overlaps, or disappearances […]

  • VoteFeed.org

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    VoteFeed.org is a Twitter/Bluesky-like user experience that allows constituents to interact with their respective U.S. representative in congress by sharing their opinion on policies up for vote in the legislative agenda. Merlin Valdez, the creator of VoteFeed, will be joining us in the pop up to help New Yorkers learn more about their elected officials […]

  • Du Bois Does Data: Juneteenth at the Oculus — Presented by Radical Imagination (Day One)

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    This is part of a three-day weekend of presentations from Radical Imagination celebrating Juneteenth by exploring the legacy of W.E.B. DuBois. 35 years after slavery, Du Bois set out to provide a definitive image of the Negro condition in the United States. His data efforts not only quantified economic parity or lack thereof, he also […]

  • Du Bois Does Data: Juneteenth at the Oculus — Presented by Radical Imagination (Day Two)

    This is part of a three-day weekend of presentations from Radical Imagination celebrating Juneteenth by exploring the legacy of W.E.B. DuBois. 35 years after slavery, Du Bois set out to provide a definitive image of the Negro condition in the United States. His data efforts not only quantified economic parity or lack thereof, he also […]

  • CUNY AI Lab’s Inference Arcade

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    The CUNY AI Lab (CAIL) is a faculty- and staff-led initiative based at the Graduate Center that supports experimentation with AI by teachers and researchers across disciplines. Funded by the Office of Academic Affairs and jointly administered by Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, the Teaching and Learning Center, the Mina Rees Library, and the American Social […]

  • Wiki-Play Friday

    Wikimedia New York City invites you to Wiki-Play Fridays, a pop-up exhibition and laboratory of wiki-based immersive design gaming at the World Trade Center Oculus in Lower Manhattan. These are Friday afternoon events (2-6pm), held once per month. There will be demos and playtesting of wiki-games and novel modes of interaction, both digital and tactile. […]

  • fomo.nyc (Day One)

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    fomo.nyc is a community-built interactive map of upcoming events in the NYC area. It works by visiting the websites of parks, museums, music venues, etc., identifying any upcoming events, and displaying them on a map. This project is a labor of love and will always be free and open-source. Creator Isha Mani will be present […]

  • fomo.nyc (Day Two)

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    fomo.nyc is a community-built interactive map of upcoming events in the NYC area. It works by visiting the websites of parks, museums, music venues, etc., identifying any upcoming events, and displaying them on a map. This project is a labor of love and will always be free and open-source. Creator Isha Mani will be present […]

  • The Common News

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Come to meet the team behind www.thecommon.news! This is a project created to make it simple for people to view their local city council meeting minutes, future meeting information, and their officials. The Common News took this another step further, using LLMs with specific context to summarize the meeting minutes to give the users quick […]

  • Project Watchtower: ICE Data Explorer

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Project Watchtower is a publicly accessible web platform that compiles and visualizes data on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity and spending, including arrests, enforcement-related deaths, detention statistics, and federal budget expenditures. Drawing from government datasets and credible reporting, the site translates complex information into interactive charts, maps, and visualizations that make immigration […]

  • NDIF Presents: “Does AI work the way we think?” (Day One)

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Most people interact with AI every day but have no way to see inside it. Workbench (https://workbench.ndif.us/) is a free tool that changes this. Built by the National Deep Inference Fabric (NDIF), Workbench lets anyone explore how AI models work inside without writing a single line of code. At this crucial moment when AI is […]