May 30, 2007
Sinister Showing
Annina is showing her pre-MIT project Sinister Social Network in the exhibition My Own Private Reality at Edith Russ Haus in Oldenburg (Germany). Last month, she showed another pre-MIT project, Rock 'N' Scroll, in the exhibition Soundbytes also at Edith Russ Haus.
May 24, 2007
Knight Vision
The Director, along with his colleagues Henry Jenkins and Mitchel Resnick, was just awarded a 5m, four year grant by the Knight Foundation to start a Center for Future Civic Media. We'll start work on the Center this summer, so watch this space for announcements.
May 16, 2007
Selectricity Selected!
Mako's project Selectricity tries to take election technology designed for governments and make it available for for everyone else. It tries to use the state of the art from the more traditional election technology world to build tools both to help people make better decisions in their every day life and to, in the process, rework their own relationship to the tools and processes of democracy.
The project was just given a grant to fund continued development as part of the Digital Incubator initiative by MTV and Cisco. More on the project is on the weblogs of the Director and Mako and in the more traditional press as well.
May 15, 2007
Doctor in the House
It's with joy and pride that we announce Kelly Dobson's successful defense of her doctoral dissertation, "Machine Therapy."
Kelly presented her most recent project, OMO, as well as the others that have made her an international phenomenon. At least one audience member was spotted crying from happiness with the presentation.
Video of her defense will be online soon.