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Eden Medina
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Historian of tech @MITPSTS @MIT. Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Co-curator Cómo diseñar una revolucón // How to Design a Revolution. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #design #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own.
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Joke courtesy of Guy Fedorkow of the MIT Museum: How do you display software?
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Congratulations to MIT HASTS student Mariel García-Montes for being featured on the MIT homepage! Read about Mariel's important work on surveillance in Mexico & technology for the public interest. Screenshot of homepage below, full article here: tinyurl.com/2875bjxu #proudadvisor
September 15, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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Next week Hugo Palmarola, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, and I will be giving talks in NYC. First stop: the University Seminar on Latin America @ Columbia. We will talk about our recent full-scale reconstruction of the Cybersyn operations room in Santiago, Chile. March 7 @ 7pm. RSVP tinyurl.com/4etffh7r.
Poster for the talk "Technology, Design, and Memory" in Chile: The History of Project Cybersyn. The talk will discuss the recent exhibition "How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design" and the first full-scale, functional reconstruction of the cybernetic operations room from Project Cybersyn. This talk will share the history of the project, how interpretations of its history have changed over time, and how the reconstruction of the room has furthered historical understandings of the project and its context. It will also discuss the process of reconstructing the operations room for public display, how the history forms part of a larger story of Chile bringing together design, democracy, and socialism, and how these stories of design are shaping public memory. The poster includes the time, date, and location of the event; individual images of the three speakers; and a photo of them sitting together in the operations room reconstruction.
February 28, 2024 at 4:25 AM