I am a documentary media artist obsessed with the often-overlooked details of everyday space. Among many interests, I am especially passionate about massive, collaborative projects about place. Before Mapping Main Street, I created Yellow Arrow, a global public art project that has reached collaborators in over 450 cities in 39 countries. I am a founding member and staff mentor at UnionDocs, a documentary arts collaborative in Brooklyn.

 

My work with others has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, the Volksbühne Berlin, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, and the Van Alen Institute, amongst many other venues.

 

While working on Mapping Main Street, I am also pursuing a Ph. D. in the history and theory of urban visual culture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Summer 2008, I was Adjunct Associated Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, where I co-taught the seminar "Critical Urban Media Arts: An Experimental Workshop in Urban Representation, Mapping and Representation." Spring 2007, I was an Adjunct Professor in the history of design education at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where I was also the Director of the Pratt Design Initiative for Community Empowerment.

 

In 2005, I published, The Colors of Berlin with my Berlin-based artist group Stadtblind.

 

I don't quite understand the logic behind it, but I love cities that start with the letter B. I grew up in Boulder. And currently, when I'm not on the road, I live between Brooklyn and Boston, while occasionally visiting my former home, Berlin.

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