Virtual Aquapolis chronicles the transformation of New York harbor from a rich, biodiverse maze of marshlands, reefs and estuaries into the urban waterways surrounding NYC today. Visitors become the water itself: moving through the harbor as currents and tides and shifting volume to filter through oysters and jellyfish to explore microscopic lifeforms and pollutants. Over […]
Created in a Works on Water residency on Governors Island and screened internationally as part of the Under the Subway Video Art Festival, Aquapolis 2100 explores New York City’s rising sea levels, which could rise up 6 feet by 2100. Each weekend of their Works on Water residency in summer 2018, the artists invited visitors […]
Delivered through an innovative “location aware” smartphone app (Detour), Central Park: Democratic Playground utilized responsive GPS triggers to adjust with the speed and the path of the user, creating an immersive, personalized experience. Narrated by Adrian Benepe, who served as New York’s Commissioner of Parks for nearly a decade, Central Park: Democratic Playground is a […]
An augmented reality tour set in the Queens Museum’s Panorama, Commotion examines NYC through the lens of the daily commute. Participants held up smartphones or tablets at spots around the Panorama to see the maps of individual commutes laid over the model of New York City. These documentary maps, based on input from communities across […]
Created for Elsewhere Museum, On Hamburger Square is a community portrait of Greensboro’s Hamburger Square told through the stories of its citizens exploring the past, present, and future of the city’s historic crossroads. Augmented Reality links montages of community audio interviews to objects in the square such as signs, buildings and monuments. Participants explore the […]
– Gallery Installation and Interactive SMS Crowdsourced Photo Exhibit – In Convergence Lines, Samara Smith and A.E. Souzis outlined one Brooklyn neighborhood’s social connections by mapping photographs sourced from area’s residents. Visitors to the exhibit and residents were invited to submit photographs via text throughout the month of January. When the images were collected, exhibited and mapped, they create a complex […]
Created for the Open Source Gallery, Anamorphosis was a spatial and relational exploration of what makes and defines a neighborhood, set in, and inspired by, the area surrounding the gallery. The exhibit’s video and photo installations sought to collectively make visible the physical and social lines that demarcate and connect a community. Through site-specific and […]
Designed for the New York Transit Museum’s Platform series, Tell-A-Commute was a crowdsourced neighborhood photo diary documenting the collective observations of New Yorkers on their daily commute. This participatory project used smartphone photography and interactive texting to compile a collaborative visual portrait of New York as seen through the eyes of its residents as they traveled along the […]
Locative game exhibited at the Hammer Museum as part of the group show, Game Room. Designed to bring visitors out of the gallery and into the surrounding neighborhood, players picked up instructions at the gallery and used them to navigate the streets of Westwood. Instructions guided players to lock direction when encountering evidence of chain […]
Anyplace, Brooklyn, an audio walking tour of Downtown Brooklyn, premiered at Conflux, the annual New York Festival for Contemporary Psychogeography, in September, 2007. Participants described the experience as “eye-opening,” “multi-layered,” “complex,” “nuanced,” and “informative and thoughtful.” “Part art project, part history lesson and part contemporary social criticism.” (The Brooklyn Paper) The audio walk mixed documentary […]