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.

Klaus Fruchtnis and I are again collaborating on this year’s thing-a-day.  We have started a picture within a picture series, and in our latest experiments we are leaving the photographs in situ with an address that may lead someone to this site.

If you found one of our photos (see all of mine here, and all of Klaus’ here), please comment on this post.

In case you weren’t able to attend, here is the video of my presentation at last year’s Ignite NYC VI evening:

I was invited to speak tonight at the Ignite NYC event as part of Yahoo’s Open Hack NYC Developer Conference. Here’s a brief description of the talk and I’ve included the PowerPoint presentation below:

Since 2007 I have been involved in an ongoing project through Parsons and The New School in which faculty travel to Guatemala each summer with teams of students to help small Mayan women’s artisan associations to create sustainable income-generating businesses through the sale of their products in global markets.  In this talk I will focus on how my work in one of the towns, San Lucas Tolimán, has been an invitation to slow down, to reconsider my spatial frameworks, and particularly, to question and challenge the good & the bad in our highly mediated networks.

I’ll be presenting in that insane 5-minutes-20-slides-with-15-second-auto-advance format (aka Pecha Kucha) and it seems to be a great lineup of presenters! I’ll post a link to the video once it’s up.  To attend, you can find all the details here (no need to RSVP.)