A Dislocative Tourism Agency
You Are Not Here (.org) is a platform for urban tourism mash-ups. It invites participants to become meta-tourists on simultaneous excursions through multiple cities. Passers-by stumble across the curious You Are Not Here signs in the street. TheYANH street-signs provide the telephone number for the Tourist Hotline, a portal for audio-guided tours of one place on the streets of another. Through investigation of these points and with or without the aid of a downloadable map, local pedestrians are transformed into tourists of foreign places. Current walking tours include Baghdad through the streets of New York City and Gaza City through the streets of Tel-Aviv.
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Mushon Zer-Aviv designs, teaches and creates within new media. He is interested in challenging the perception of territory and borders and the way they are shaped through politics, culture, globalization and the world wide web.
Mushon is active in the Israeli & international new media scenes, as a contributor to some online magazines (Pixelsurgeon.com, Maarav.org.il, Exego.net) and through organizing off-line events (BD4D Tel-Aviv,Upgrade! Tel-Aviv, Upgrade! International).
He has presented in some festivals (Ars Electronica, Offf, Upgrade!International, Conflux…) and won some prizes and grants (Prix Ars Honorary Mention, Swiss MediaProjects new-media Grant…)
In 2002 Mushon opened Shual (Shual.com) design studio with Guy Saggee. In 2006 he started ShiftSpace (an open source layer above any website) with Dan Phiffer. Mushon currently live with my wife and cat in New York.
Dan Phiffer is a new media hacker from California, interested in exploring cultural dimensions of inexpensive communications networks such as voice telephony and the Internet. Drawing on his computer science background, Dan’s software projects seek to provide meaningful creative opportunities through intuitive user interfaces. Dan now lives in
Kati London designs, develops and builds opportunities for interacting with others—whether that be for people and plants, residents of Baghdad and New York City or an international conference of mobile game developers. Her varied interests have led her to curate cultural programs at one of New York City’s botanical gardens as well as produce the first online art auctions for artnet.com. Her collaborative projects have been featured in the Come Out & Play Festival, New York; and Conflux: Festival of Psychogeography. Her project Urban Sonar has been featured in Wired; and Botanicalls: the plants have your number, has been featured on the BBC, and will be included in an upcoming documentary for German and French public television. She currently works as a producer and game designer for the big game design company, area/code. She recently finished her Masters at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program
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Laila El-Haddad is a freelance Palestinian journalist and writer based between the
Laila received her B.A. from
Laila has received a number of awards and scholarship for her leadership, public service, intellectual abilities and dedication to her work. Laila is also the author of the blog Raising Yousuf, named after her two-year-old son (www.a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com), where she writes about the trials and tribulations of motherhood under occupation.
Thomas Duc is an artist living in
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