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 […]
The Reboot is our time to hang out, reflect on the day’s demos, and interact with the online PIT community.
Welcome to Day 6 of the NYC PIT Pop Up! Today’s PIT events are presented by NYC PIT Pop Up official partner, BetaNYC. BetaNYC Day Schedule: Daily Demos: 2:00pm-6:00pm Aging Out of Place: Chinatown Elderly Mapping For Equity & Future of The Oculus NYC Poop Map ACE and the Race to Class: Improving Bus Speeds […]
Mapping For Equity & Future of The Oculus is presented by BetaNYC. About BetaNYC: BetaNYC is a civic organization dedicated to improving lives in New York through civic design, technology, and data. We believe that all New Yorkers should be able to access information and use technology as tools for public good. When communities are […]
Aging Out of Place is a participatory mahjong-inspired installation first selected for Data Through Design during NYC Open Data Week, later featured in Next City News, NYCxDesign Week, and presented in lectures at Northwestern. Using mahjong tiles—a symbol of connection but also a gateway into the gambling addiction among Chinatown elderly— this piece reconstructs a […]
Pooping is one of the most natural acts for all creatures; poop is a trace of what is consumed every day. However, in New York City, poop is more. It is everywhere and has become an unignorable icon of the city itself. If poop symbolizes NYC, how might we reimagine it in a creative […]
ACE and the Race to Class: Improving Bus Speeds for CUNY Students investigates how New York City’s Automated Camera Enforcement (ACE) program can improve bus speeds and reduce chronic lateness for CUNY students. Using MTA bus data and machine learning models, we discovered that ACE implementation increases bus speeds by 10.1% on CUNY routes—yet […]
Co-op Ride is a driver-owned rideshare platform launched by The Drivers Cooperative in New York City to provide a community-based alternative to Uber and Lyft. Through the app, drivers earn more on each trip, and profits go back to drivers. The co-op is now launching a new platform, which can be used by riders to […]
The Reboot is our time to hang out, reflect on the day’s demos, and interact with the online PIT community.
Welcome to the 7th day of the NYC PIT Pop Up! Today’s PIT theme is: Technospirit. Technospirit Day Schedule: Daily Demos: 2:00pm-6:00pm Reinventing the Wheel: A Conversation in Future Retrospect Body in Beta Artificial Agency – SOUR GUMMIES DON’T CRY The Reboot: 6:00pm-7:30pm
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 […]
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 […]