Mushon Zer-Aviv
Bio:
Siggraph 2014
Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist based in New York and Tel Aviv. His work involves media in public space and public space in media. Zer-Aviv’s collaborations include co-founding Shual.com, a foxy design studio; YouAreNotHere.org, a tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel Aviv; Kriegspiel, a computer game version of the Situationist Game of War; the Turing Normalizing Machine, exploring algorithmic prejudice; Alef, the open-source multi-script font; the Collaborative-Futures.org collaboratively authored book; and multiple government transparency and civic participation initiatives with the Public Knowledge Workshop. Zer-Aviv is also in charge of map design at Waze.com. He is an honorary resident at Eyebeam, an art and technology center in New York, and teaches digital media as a faculty member of Shenkar School of Engineering and Design. He blogs at Mushon.com and can be followed at @mushon.