December 13, 2012

Mushon Zer-Aviv & Galia Offri (IL)

Mushon Zer-Aviv

Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist based in NY & Tel Aviv. His work involves media in public space and public space in media. He explores the borders of collaborative models as they are redrawn through politics, design and networks. He is the co-founder of Shual.com – a foxy design studio; ShiftSpace – an Open Source layer above any website; YouAreNotHere.org – a tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel Aviv;Kriegspiel – a computer game version of the Situationist Game of War; the Collaborative-Futures.org collaboratively authored book; and multiple government transparency and civic participation initiatives with the Public Knowledge Workshop. Mushon is an honorary resident at Eyebeam – an art and technology center in New York. He teaches digital media as a faculty member of Shenkar School of Engineering and Design. Previously he taught new media research at NYU and Open Source design at Parsons the New School of Design and in Bezalel Academy of Art & Design. Mushon blogs at Mushon.com and tweets at@mushon.

Galia Offri

Galia Offri is an Israeli artist and illustrator (b.1978) Her work has been published in the New York Times and Haaretz among other publications, and has been exhibited in New York, Europe and Israel. Galia is based in NY and Tel Aviv where she lives with her cat, son and husband Mushon Zer-Aviv.