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. Halloween Schedule: Daily Demos: 2:00pm-6:00pm AI Nightmares or Dreams? New York Emotions: Live Inside the Tentacular Web: The Journey of the Web’s Nonhuman Intelligence Redact The Reboot: 6:00pm-7:30pm
AI 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 […]
New 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 […]
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.) ⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅⋅˚₊‧ ⎯⎯⎯ ଳ ⎯⎯⎯ ‧₊˚⋅ Experience the Internet through the tentacles of a […]
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 […]