Whether for pop-ups, concerts, trendy bakeries, or sneaker drops, whatisthislinefor.nyc addresses the uniquely NYC phenomenon of standing in long lines. The project is a real-time, community powered website that tracks queues: where people are gathering, how long they’re waiting, and what they’re waiting for. Lines are more than just means to access… in NYC they’re […]
The Reboot is our time to hang out, reflect on the day’s demos, and interact with the online PIT community.
Welcome to Day 4 of the NYC PIT Pop Up! Today’s PIT theme is: Zine/DIY. Zine/DIY Day Schedule: Daily Demos: 2:00pm-6:00pm Zine Lab by Missouri PIT-UN Wiki.NYC Public Library Wiki-Kiosk fomo.city The Reboot: 6:00pm-7:30pm
The Zine Lab is a collaborative community project between Missouri S&T and East Carolina University and funded by the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN). “Zines are world-making tools” and in the process of zine-making, “students make their ideas material while ensuring them a future, often for those whom our society harbors the most […]
Wiki.NYC Public Library Wiki-Kiosk is an installation that explores digital and tactile interaction with Wikipedia and other free knowledge platforms from a physical interface, particularly using outcomes of Wiki Gam Jam. Wiki.NYC Public Library Wiki-Kiosk is presented by Richard Knipel, CUNY Wikimedian-in-Residence, Wikimedia NYC.
fomo.nyc is a free, community-built interactive map of upcoming events in NYC. It works by visiting the websites of parks, museums, music venues, etc., identifying any upcoming events, and displaying them on a map. The goal is for this to become a useful resource for people to find events they are interested in and […]
The Reboot is our time to hang out, reflect on the day’s demos, and interact with the online PIT community.
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 […]