I feel extremely lucky for my participation in DEED: Development through Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Design. This program that I helped start in 2007 helps artisan women in Guatemala (for now, but hoping to expand to other countries) create sustainable businesses through the sale of their artisan goods and through the promotion of sustainable tourism.

I am in Guatemala again for 10 days with 7 students and you can stay tuned via our blog, or read more details on our website, at http://www.thenewschoolcollaborates.com

I am part of a small group of people keen on diversifying the world of art/technology practitioners. Based in Bogota, New York, Madrid and London (soon), we decided to launch this effort by making Processing tutorials accessible to a Spanish-speaking community of artists, designers, academics, and technologists.

All English & Spanish speakers are invited to this founding event of Media Lab Bogotá – a 2-day event to translate Daniel Shiffman’s Processing tutorials from English into Spanish.

ITP
721 Broadway, 4th Floor; NY, NY
Saturday, May 22nd, 12-6pm and
Sunday, May 23rd, 12-6pm

If you can come for 30 minutes, 1 hour, or one whole afternoon, we can use all the help we can get. You do not necessarily need to know all of the technical terminology, since the point of crowdsourced translation is that we can collaborate on each one.

PLEASE help us circulate this as widely as possible by sending this blog entry around and referring people to our Facebook event at
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125139364179175

Also, if you would like to participate but cannot commute to NYU, please leave a comment on this post and we can connect with you via email or Skype and still get your support.

A special thank you to Daniel Shiffman for his tutorials, and to ITP at NYU for the space.

Please join me on Wednesday, May 26, for the launch of my new book Of and In Cities

BOOK LAUNCH
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
6:30-8:00 p.m.

Parsons The New School for Design
2 W. 13th St. Ground Floor
Orientation Room (behind the bark wall)

I’m thrilled to be participating in the 2010 Madarts Open Studios this coming weekend. I have had a productive year with my work and am eager to share it with the public!

On display will be the limited edition run of my self-published Of and In Cities (see cover above). The book was designed by Erich Nagler and with essays by Christina Ray, Estefanía Sokoloff and Miodrag Mitrasinovic. An official book launch will follow in late May but signed & numbered copies will be available this weekend.

I will also have copies of Cross Urban, a book that documents my ongoing collaborative dyptichs (below is "Interdigitate") with Klaus Fruchtnis.

Finally, I will also be showing the beginning works in Fachadas, a new photography series with screenprint on glass and from Stretched, panoramic prints which collapse times into space (see below Stretched #2 (Prince St.).

I am told it will feel like spring again this weekend, so make a plan out of spending the day in Park Slope, and stop by!

Madarts Open Studios
Saturday & Sunday, May 15th & 16th
12-6pm

255 18th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215 (click for map)

I am thrilled to present to you a book of my ongoing collaboration with artist Klaus Fruchtnis.  “Cross Urban” compiles over two years of our project under the same name, with over 50 images and text.  The essay in the book, “Visual Play” was written by Estefania Sokoloff.

Click on this screenshot to see a preview online and have the option of purchasing it.