Artist, designer & curator. @itpalumni previously @queensmuseum @metmuseum@MetMediaLab IG: @macascos

Joined May 2009
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Thank you to The Climate Council for choosing our book, Design Emergency: Building a Better Future, co-written by Paola Antonelli (@curiousoctopus) and I, as one of its Ten Inspiring Books About Climate Change Action. climatecouncil.org.au/ten-ne… #designemergency @phaidonpress
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🚨 @SenSchumer @ChrisCoons: activists from the Global South have one clear message: climate justice can’t wait. We need you to deliver the climate finance promised by @POTUS at last year's #UNGA. The clock is ticking – will you act? #ClimateJustice

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Kim Kardashian's decision to wear Marilyn Monroe's iconic "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" gown to the #MetGala has conservators, curators and fashion historians baffled and worried that the incident sets a dangerous precedent. Here's why. lat.ms/3OWuJM9
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Consider applying for a Magic Grant! This is a seriously fantastic opportunity. We have sponsored such amazing projects in our 10 years of grant making.
Magic Grant proposals are due April 8! Receive up to $150k in fellowships and other support for your project -- "follow your passion and experiment with new approaches to storytelling” brown.columbia.edu/the-brown…
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Some NYC food/drink news out of East Village tonight.. Stepped into Village Yokocho for dinner and server informed me the beloved izakaya is closing at end of month due to massive rent hike. But they explained this also affects legendary speakeasy Angel’s Share, opened in 1993.
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Cool opportunity to build tools for Local News with the great team @LocalAtBrown @BrownInstitute
Hi hello! 👋🏼 We are hiring a Software Engineer (Backend or Machine Learning) for a remote position on our team. We do mission-driven work, supporting local news organizations' business goals through data products. medium.com/localatbrown/were… #journalismjobs #softwareengineeringjobs
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The @BrownInstitute @columbiajourn is hiring! You should have a history of “creative research” that expands on traditional forms of journalism &media, and want to support and inspire new entrepreneurs working at the intersection of tech and media. Join us! brown.columbia.edu/we-are-hi…

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Barbed wire, basements, lots of paperwork: How museums in Ukraine are scrambling to protect their collections. “We had plans for what to do prewar,” the director of Ukraine’s Museum of Freedom said, “but now it is a war, it’s totally different.” nyti.ms/36Jdhcn

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Congratulations!!
Start of an epic 🧵. In July, I have the honor of joining @Cronkite_ASU to run #CronkitePro, a new program providing lifelong learning for professionals around the globe. So grateful to Dean @BattintoBattsJr and his colleagues for giving me this opportunity to work w/ them. 1/
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Announcing the 2022-23 "Magic Grant" competition! Each year the @BrownInstitute awards about $1M in grants to help you “follow your passion and create original content,” to paraphrase Helen Gurley Brown. Our “Magic Grants” are a unique blend of technology and media.
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The @BrownInstitute @columbiajourn announces its "Innovation Challenge in Journalism, Media and Technology", a program to nurture new ventures. Winners receive cash prizes and fellowships for Brown's Summer Entrepreneurship Program which could award up to $100k to a winning team.
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Apply by Jan. 15 to Columbia's Dual M.S. in Journalism and Computer Science, which trains a new generation of computationally literate journalists - or journalistically literate computer scientists - to redefine journalism as we know it. Watch a video: apply.jrn.columbia.edu/regis…
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Join us on Sept. 15th @ 4pm ET as we discuss "A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" with author & anthropologist @shannonmattern, @everestpipkin, @JasmineMcNealy & Ever Bussey: datasociety.net/events/a-cit…
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2021-22 Magic Grantees @moniquitri and her collaborator William (Greg) Odum have proposed a bilingual online repository to help collectives of searchers, families, journalists, and researchers seeking information regarding Mexico’s 88,000 victims of forced disappearance.
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Replying to @BrownInstitute
Thank you for the opportunity @BrownInstitute 🙌
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Lessons from cultural institutions and libraries that went open access in 2020-2021, by @giofontenelle for #IMD2021 diff.wikimedia.org/2021/05/1…
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